Maya Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery by analyzing lidar data from an unexplored region of the Maya world in Campeche, Mexico. This cutting-edge technology
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AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya believed that everything in the universe, from the natural world to everyday experiences, was part of a single, powerful spiritual force. They were
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have made a significant discovery in the Archaeological Zone of Cobá, Quintana Roo,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) survey conducted in Campeche, Mexico, has revealed significant archaeological findings. The survey covered an area of 140
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AncientPages.com - K’ahk’ Uti’ Witz’ K’awiil knew his history. For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near today’s border between Honduras and Guatemala. From the
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AncientPages.com - Some people fear that breaking a mirror can lead to seven years of misfortune. The history of this superstition may go back to the ancient Greeks
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Domestication of wheat in Mesopotamia and rice in India and China laid the foundation for the Neolithic revolution in Europe and Asia. Centeotl
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating archaeologist at Chochkitam in Guatemala have discovered a fascinating Maya king's tomb filled with unique ancient treasures. Chochkitam is a little-known
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While conducting salvage works of Section 7 of the Mayan Train, a team of archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH)
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While scanning the Yucatan jungle in Mexico with lasers, scientists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered an 18-kilometer (11-mile)
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient people immigrated to Cancun Island and were treated just like locals, according to a study. The Late Postclassic (AD 1200-1500) in the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is much to be learned from many ancient civilizations. Ancient Maya reservoirs, which used aquatic plants to filter and clean the water,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at the Archaeological Zone of Palenque in southern Mexico report they have found an ancient Maya nose ornament made of human
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An airborne laser scanning study has led to the surprising discovery of an ancient, unknown Maya city hidden deep in the jungle in
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AncientPages.com - Games have been played for thousands of years in cultures across the world. There's the chequerboard game Senet, played in Egypt around BCE 3100. The African cup
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Maya produced some of the most durable lime plasters on Earth, yet how this was achieved remains a secret. With its magnificent
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Reduced predictability of seasonal rainfall might have played a significant role in the disintegration of Classic Maya societies about 1,100 years ago. "Decline
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Evidence for the earliest known Maya calendar has been found in San Bartolo, Guatemala, by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Archaeoastronomy
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most ancient civilizations studied celestial objects and were skilled astronomers. Countless archaeological examples have provided evidence ancient people were often more advanced than
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - More than 500 years ago in the midwestern Guatemalan highlands, Maya people bought and sold goods with far less oversight from their rulers
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists using radar have once again uncovered amazing ancient structures that cannot be easily detected from the ground. With the help of LIDAR
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An exceptional collection of well-preserved stucco maks examined by experts are now revealing their secrets shedding light on the ancient Maya kingdom. Archaeologist
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The use of LIDAR, (light detection and ranging) has helped to uncover more secrets of Calakmul, an enormous ancient Maya city. As a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Belize have found ancient Maya salt workers worked from home. The discovery was made during the excavation of Ta'ab Nuk Na,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It would seem ancient Maya cities in Mesoamerica are as beautiful as dangerous. There is solid evidence that beneath the soil surface of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mexican officials has just announced the discovery of an ancient archaeological Maya site along the route of the Maya Train railroad in Quintana
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - We stand in the open fields of Spanish Lookout, a modernized Mennonite farming community in Central Belize, looking at what remains of ancestral
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Prolonged drought likely helped to fuel civil conflict and the eventual political collapse of Mayapan, the ancient capital city of the Maya on
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered an approximately 2,000-year-old Mayan pot in a cave in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. The National Institute of Anthropology
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AncientPages.com - The city of Mayapán was the largest Mayan city from approximately 1200 to 1450 AD. It was an important political, economic and religious center, and the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An extended period of turmoil in the prehistoric Maya city of Mayapan, in the Yucatan region of Mexico, was marked by population declines,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Georgia State University anthropologist Dr. Jeffrey Glover grew up in metro Atlanta, but speaking to him, it sounds like his heart is in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient toilets and trash pits are like heaven to archaeologists. They might not have the glamor of a gleaming medieval jewel or intricate
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Maize has always been the most important food crop in the Maya. According to the ancient creation myth of the Maya people, the gods
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While excavating on a construction site of what will become an industrial park near Merida, on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula archaeologists have uncovered the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Oral hygiene was important to the Maya who had remarkable dental skills. Scientists have discovered that the ancient Maya came with a special
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists are exploring an ancient lost Maya city hidden inside a volcanic crater. Hundreds of years ago, in the middle of Lake
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating in Guatemala archaeologists discovered a glyph representing a day called "7 Deer" on mural fragments dating from the third century B.C
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Tikal was the Maya's religious, ceremonial, and military city-state, with a long and fascinating history recorded in the city's ruins, artifacts, and plenty
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study along with excavations in Belize has revealed early Maya trace their roots to previously unknown ancient immigrants carrying maize
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This important discovery sheds much light on cacao cultivation, religion, power in the region. For as much as modern society worships chocolate, cacao
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Xunantunich, a major ceremonial center of the Maya Civilization, is an ancient Maya archaeological site atop a ridge above the Mopan River, about
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