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4 days ago · Or the droughts themselves may have triggered unrest and civil wars as people fought for remaining food supplies. 5. Maya Kings’ Power Struggles Destabilized Society. Speaking of conflicts, we ...
4 days ago · By developing a detailed calendar system, the Mayans were able to determine auspicious days for conducting religious rituals, ceremonies, and important events based on their astronomical observations. The Mayan calendar was not just a tool for practical purposes but also served to maintain their spiritual connection and harmony with the cosmos.
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6 days ago · The most famous crystal skull-of-doom allegedly discovered by Anna Mitchell-Hedges in 1924 on an excavation of the ancient Mayan city of Lubaantun in Belize. New-agers have associated the skulls with the belief that the Mayan Long-Count calendar runs out on Dec. 21, 2012 a world ends on this doomsday.
2 days ago · Mesoamerica portal. v. t. e. The Maya civilization ( / ˈmaɪə /) was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period. It is known by its ancient temples and glyphs (script). The Maya script is the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas.
3 days ago · In a single act of wanton zealotry, the Spanish friar Diego de Landa burned, by his own account, 27 priceless Maya screenfold manuscripts in front of the church in the 4,000-year-old town of Maní, on the Yucatan peninsula, on the evening of July 12th., 1562. It was an attempt to erase in the minds of the Maya peoples the memory of their gods ...
1 day ago · Maya and Aztec builders used lime mortar as stucco or plaster, that could be painted on. Nahua (Aztec) scribes specifically referred to its qualities in Sahagún’s encyclopaedic work the Florentine Codex: ‘Its name comes from tezontli and tlalli [earth]. This is pulverised tezontli. It is made into fragments, broken up, roughened, sticky.
2 days ago · This short article is a summary of the study of a ceramic fragment of a ‘death whistle’ from the surface of the Mazatepetl (deer hill, south of Mexico City) - pic 6, left. It probably dates from the Early Postclassic (1250-1380) era. It was found in an archaeological dig led by Francisco Rivas Castro. Since 2006, the consultation document ...
