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Tulum Mexico history
Tulum Mexico history
November 14, 2023
A singular visual scheme defines the precariousness of Tulum: abandoned yards, old tires, trash, a few chickens or dogs running around, and the smell of excrement. Blue, red, pink, purple, violet garments…
Maya in America
Maya in America
November 12, 2023
Harvesting corn is a seasonal business requiring high-speed operation and minimal machine down-time and/or corn losses. Maya America’s innovative and reliable corn head are specifically designed for high-quality…
Mayan civilization fall
Mayan civilization fall
November 6, 2023
Undreds of years ago in what is now modern Honduras, Copán was a thriving civilization, a center of the cultural life of the Maya. Tens of thousands of people made their home in the Copán Valley. Yet despite…
Astronomy religion
Astronomy religion
November 6, 2023
Is this what our own Milky Way Galaxy looks like from far away? Similar in size and design to our home galaxy, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 is about 100 million light-years away, toward the constellation Leo…
Oldest Mayan ruins
Oldest Mayan ruins
October 28, 2023
Cahael Pech is one of the oldest Mayan sites. We learned that the Mayan rulers would often build on top of what other rulers had already built. So, most of the lower parts of the ruins were the oldest…
Major religions of Guatemala
Major religions of Guatemala
October 25, 2023
Religion in Guatemala is fairly complex, with traditional Mayan spirituality still very much a presence, particularly in the highlands, along with Catholicism and the more recent incursions of Evangelical Christianity. In much smaller numbers, Guatemala’s Jewish population is centered in Guatemala City…
Central American ruins
Central American ruins
October 5, 2023
I love Central America! Surrounded by the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the slender land bridge of Central America runs from Mexico to South America and is made up of seven nations – Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Political and civil unrest in the 1980s kept…
Where do the Mayans live today?
Where do the Mayans live today?
September 15, 2023
“We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.” –Rigoberta Mench’u Tum, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. The ancient Mayan civilization may now be long gone but this does not mean that the society…
Modern Mayan culture
Modern Mayan culture
August 26, 2023
Mount Holyoke College senior Harrison Gage was intrigued when she learned she would spend the summer cataloguing precious Mayan “poison flasks” during an internship in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. Rather than deadly concoctions, however, she learned that the vase-like containers…
Mayan bloodletting rituals
Mayan bloodletting rituals
August 6, 2023
Bloodletting-cutting part of the body to release blood-is an ancient ritual used by many Mesoamerican societies. For the ancient Maya, bloodletting rituals constituted a way to communicate with the gods and royal ancestors. This practice was usually performed by nobles through the perforation of body…
Ancient Mayan Laws
Ancient Mayan Laws
August 6, 2023
The ancient Maya civilization existed for over two thousand years before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores in the 16th century. The ancient Maya settled in Central America, southern Mexico, and the Yucatan peninsula, and are believed to have been connected to the northern areas of Mesoamerica…
Aztecs
Aztecs
July 31, 2023
Pac-12 reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of the Santa Clara University Matt Fortuna Notre Dame/ACC reporter Graduate of Penn State University Hawai i Bowl: San Diego State Aztecs vs. Cincinnati Bearcats Date: Dec. 24, 8 p.m. ET on ESPN Location: Honolulu | Aloha Stadium San Diego State Aztecs…
Aztec religion today
Aztec religion today
July 29, 2023
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Maya Aztecs and Incas
Maya Aztecs and Incas
July 27, 2023
This chapter has been published in the book . For ordering information please click here. Humans may have lived in the western hemisphere more than fifty thousand years ago as indicated by legends of ancient Lemuria or Mu and Atlantis. A land bridge from Asia to North America was apparently used by migrating…
Mesoamerica maps
Mesoamerica maps
July 27, 2023
Today’s guest post was written by Katje Lattik , Archaeological Research Intern in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, who works with the Pre-Columbian objects in the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas. Katje was a 2015 Library of Congress…
Timeline of Mesoamerica
Timeline of Mesoamerica
July 22, 2023
The term Mesoamerica is derived from the Greek and means Middle America. It refers to a geographical and cultural area which extends from northern Mexico down through Central America, including Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador. It is therefore seen as partly in North America, and encompassing…
Where did the Mayans go?
Where did the Mayans go?
July 2, 2023
By GUY GARCIA PALENQUE-With reporting by Laura Lopez/San Cristobal de las Casas A tour guide at the legendary ruins of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico, likes to tell the story. A tourist, after staring in awe at the towering pyramids, turned to the guide and said, The buildings are beautiful, but where…
Define Mayans
Define Mayans
June 12, 2023
As you ll see, if you take the trouble to go through it, as I did, Copan is, or maybe was, for all I know, one of the most important centers of the Mayan civilization. Well, Mayan refers to the Mayas, an aboriginal people of Yucatan. The leading craze of the moment concerns the Mayan calendar, which…
Facts about the Mayan Culture
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 a ceramic canvas for the Maya to tell stories, venerate the gods, commemorate the deceased and much…
Fall of Maya
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
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
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
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?
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. We’ve 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…