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Facts about the Mayan Culture
May 23, 2023
Although the Maya are well known for creating a multitude of art—sketches, wood carvings, stone works—they are perhaps best known for their pottery. Driven both by function and aesthetics, pottery became…
Fall of Maya
May 3, 2023
The doomed splendor of the Maya unfolded against the backdrop of the rain forests of southern Mexico and Central America. Here, Classic Maya civilization reached improbable heights. To chart a culture whose Preclassic roots reach back 3, years, we begin with new evidence suggesting that the arrival…
Facts about the Mayan Empire
May 2, 2023
Excerpt from The Watchman s Rattle by American sociobiologist, Rebecca D. Costa As rainfall levels declined, fifteen million Mayan citizens never came face-to-face with their deteriorating situation. The population was exploding, the need for water was rapidly escalating, and the annual rainfall was…
Important Mayan gods
May 2, 2023
The pantheon of the Maya is a vast collection of deities who were worshipped throughout the region which, today, comprises Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. Not all of the gods were venerated in all of the…
Mayan gods of life
April 28, 2023
The Mayans developed a complex system of calendars that were dependent on the movements of the sun, moon, stars and planets. The calendars determined the timing of crop planting, the waging of war and the enacting of religious rituals. The cultivation of maize, the most important Mayan crop, was tied…
Where did the Mayans lived?
April 27, 2023
Palenque is one of the most important Mayan cities in southern Mexico. It was a huge ceremonial center and served peasants from an enormous region. Weve all heard of the huge, elaborate Mayan cities scattered through southern Mexico and Guatemala, but the truth of the matter is that the Mayan people…
Mayans VS Aztecs
April 20, 2023
Some of the weirdest, longest wars around have been on the other side of the Big River, but for some reason most American war nerds would rather read about Eurasian battles. Not sure why, except I remember when I was growing up, Mexico just seemed like a depressing place. That was because us gringos…
Mayan Mystery
April 20, 2023
Unraveling the mystery of who the Maya were, how they lived-and why their civilization suddenly collapsed. The crowd at the base of the enormous bloodred pyramid has been standing for hours in the dripping heat of the Guatemalan jungle. No one moves; every eye stays fixed on the building s summit, where…
Mayan history books
April 19, 2023
Scholars of pre-Columbian history have been trying to decipher something called the Grolier Codex ever since it was discovered by looters in a Chiapas cave back in the 60s. It s a 13th-century manuscript that may contain some of the collected wisdom of the Maya people. But there s a question nagging…
Mayan gods Wiki
April 19, 2023
“ The primary purpose of the ancient Maya was to give a sense of order and control to life, that was their world view. What created their world view was the mere fact that their primary crop was corn and they had to manage the wet and dry seasons which would predict the timing of the corn cycle. In the…
Maya civilization in Belize
April 9, 2023
For us to appreciate the extent and the significance of the Maya and Spanish contact period (i.e. when the Spaniards came into contact with the indigenous people in the early 16th century) and for a century and a half later, we must first liberate our minds from the artificial frontiers that were later…
Where the Mayans lived?
March 20, 2023
The Iroquois Five Nations, composed of the Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga and Cayuga Indian nations, were the most prominent Native American groups in New York State between the Allegheny Mountains and the Great Lakes. This region is often referred to as the Eastern Woodlands because of its heavy forestation…
Name of Mayan religion
February 28, 2023
Itzamna, Lizard House In Mayan, itz can mean dew or nectar Name often preceded by ahaulil,or lord Religion and Culture of Itzamna: Maya, Mesoamerica Symbols, Iconography, and Art of Itzamna: Images of Itzamna often contain snakes or mussels and he himself is depicted as an old man with a flower…
Ancient Mayan Civilisation
February 8, 2023
The lower-classed members of Mayan society are still an enigma so animal bones from the civilisation were examined for cluesNASA Television/YouTube To continue providing news and award winning journalism, we rely on advertising revenue. To continue reading, please turn off your ad blocker or whitelist…
Mayans religion Facts
January 19, 2023
Maya Gods The Maya believed in a large number of nature gods. Some gods were considered more important and powerful than others. Itzamna - The most important Maya god was Itzamna. Itzamna was the god of fire who created the Earth. He was ruler of heaven as well as day and night. The Maya believed that…
Mayan culture Art
January 19, 2023
Mexico is a wonderful place for the lovers of culture, traditions and customs, and in your vacation to Cancun you will get to know a little bit more about the Mayan Culture: their art, dance and architecture. Mayan Culture found in Cancun The Mayan civilization spread from the southern Mexican states…
Civilisation Wiki
January 19, 2023
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Ancient Mayan Buildings
January 19, 2023
You may have come across some spectacular buildings, but have you ever stopped to wonder why they’re built that way? Math and architecture are more closely linked that you might think, so read on to discover what’s behind it all… The superlatives that describe the Great Pyramid of Giza speaks for itself:…
Religion of Mayan civilization
January 18, 2023
A dread of malevolent spirits haunting forsaken areas could, along with environmental catastrophes, help to explain why some areas in the ancient Mayan world proved less resilient than others when their civilization disintegrated, researchers suggest. The ancient Maya once claimed an area about the size…
Civilization religion
January 18, 2023
For years, historians, archeologists, anthropologists and pretty much all of the other ologists have agreed that agriculture created civilization, including religion, as we have known it for the past 12, to 15, years. The assumption was that settling down to lives of farming, people built cities…
Rise and Ruin
January 18, 2023
The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Now the nation s fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat…
Where are Aztecs from?
January 17, 2023
Is Aztlan the ancient homeland of the great Aztec civilization, or is it just a mythical land described in legends? The Aztec people of Mexico created one of the greatest empires of the ancient Americas. While much is known about their empire located where today’s Mexico City can be found, less is known…
Mayan civilization Population
January 17, 2023
BYU soil scientists work at the ancient Maya location near Tikal, Guatemala. Credit: BYU The traces of ancient corn farms could reveal how many people lived in a legendary Maya city, a new study suggests. The pyramid-filled Maya site of Tikal in Guatemala is one of the largest archaeological complexes…
Incas History
January 13, 2023
INCAS, an American Indian people of Peru who in the two centuries before the Spanish discovery of America conquered an area stretching from the southern border of present-day Colombia to central Chile. Centering on the city of Cusco (Cuzco) in the Peruvian Andes, the Inca domain included the coastal…