Maya Archive
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Today, overgrown by jungle, El Mirador is a large pre-Columbian Mayan settlement located in the north of the modern department of El Petén, Guatemala. This
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Was the ancient Maya civilization much more advanced than previously thought? More than 1,000 years before Europeans landed on the shores of the Americas,
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists are slowly piecing together the fascinating history of the mysterious Maya Snake Kings, who created a powerful kingdom in a remote corner
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Ancient Symbols
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Today, the Quatrefoil symbol is mostly associated with Christianity. Formed by four circles overlapping on the same diameter, it can be found on stained
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many of the so-called Aztec temples were temples that existed before the Aztec empire did. Many peoples and cities were conquered and forced to
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the Mayan supernatural world, we meet many gods with very specific attributes and special functions assigned to the gods. Then Maya gods
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient ‘smiling faces’ are small figurines of reddish clay, associated with ancient cultures of Maya and Aztec. Usually these ceramic sculptures were solid or
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya created many books, but almost all of them were burned by conquistadors and clergy. One of those who significantly contributed
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - For the first time in thousands of years, sacred Mayan underwater tunnels in Mexico's Yucatan are being rediscovered, say researchers from Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute
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AncientPages.com - The Classic Maya revered their divine rulers and treated them as living souls after death. In northern Guatemala, archaeologists have now unearthed an ancient tomb belonging to
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, Hunac Ceel, ruler of Mayapan, conquered Chichén Itzá in the 13th century. Archaeological data, on the other
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - To improve one’s body is something modern people do all the time and it should not come as a surprise that the ancient did
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pulque is Mexico's oldest alcoholic beverage. Known as the "Drink of the Gods, it was drunk by the Maya, Aztecs, Huastecs, and other
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - How many more ancient, lost cities are still hidden deep in the jungle in Mexico? Precious ancient artifacts, mysterious structures, remarkable pyramids, just imagine
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News
AncientPages.com - On April 3, 686, Maya king Yuknoom Ixquiac (Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk') - "Jaguar Paw Smoke" assumes the crown of Calakmul, now a Maya archaeological site in the
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AncientPages.com - On January 16, 378, warlord Siyaj K'ak' (or 'Fire is Born') conquered Tikal, Uaxactun, and the city of Copan. Siyaj K'ak' - the emissary of Spear-Thrower-Owl
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - It has already been called a finding that could re-write ancient Maya history. A quite spectacular discovery of two untouched ancient tombs found beneath Maya pyramids can unravel
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - Of course, today we are used to a "week" as a 7-day period, but over the course of history the weeks have been as diverse as the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - According to a new study the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex has been misunderstood. An ancient astronomer, a Mayan version of ‘Copernicus’ observed
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - After Teotihuacan Empire eventually went into decline around 600- 700 CE, the Pre-Hispanic City of El Tajin (“place of the invisible beings or
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News
AncientPages.com - On July 12, 1562, Spanish Franciscan priest and bishop of Yucatán, Diego de Landa, burned the sacred books of the Maya. After hearing of Roman Catholic Maya, who
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Only four Mayan pictorial manuscripts have survived the organized book-burnings of Franciscan missionaries following the Spanish Conquest. None of these pre-Conquest manuscripts, record chronicles
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AncientPages.com - On May 3, 752, Bird Jaguar IV (also called Yaxun B'alam IV), a Mayan king from Yaxchilan (modern-day Chiapas), located on the banks of the river Usumacinta, in
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - As many other Mayan archaeological sites, Dzibilchaltun (“place where there is writing on flat rocks”) is a striking place. It does not have huge
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - In Canada, there is a very odd artifact that is possibly thousands of years old and is thought to pre-date the Pyramids of Egypt. The enigmatic statue
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