Facts and artifacts relative to Mayan archaeology, prehispanic pyramid architecture, Latin America, Mesoamerica, featuring Olmec jade, stelae and sculpture at Copan, and showing how pre-Columbian art can be reproduced aided by new digital technology such as the color laser printer, dye-sub, and the wide-format ink-jet printers ...

A photographic tour of Maya archaeological sites in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. Includes interactive maps, quotations from explorers and scholars, and a bibliography.

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Belize Valley Archaeology Reconnaissance Project (BVAR) 2002 Home Field School 2002 People Application Form Sites Accommodations Documents Photo Album Archaeological Vacations in Belize and Central America Field School 2001 Cahal Pech 1999 The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project will once again be conducting research at several sites in western Belize Investigations will be ...

Explore monuments and tombs erected by the rulers of one of the great Maya cities. And come face-to-face with the Red Lady, and esteemed Maya noble.

The complete Palenque website.

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Home First Round Table: Lords of Palenque Page 1 Peter Mathews and Linda Schele In view of the data presented to the Primera Mesa Redonda de Palenque by Linda Schele ( Observations on the Cross Motif at Palenque ), it was decided to further investigate some of her conclusions by examining all of the hieroglyphic texts of Palenque to see what could be determined about the rulers of Palenque. This ...

An archaeological study of chirped echo from the Mayan pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza by David Lubman Acoustical Consultant This is a concise summary of a paper to be given at the October 12-16, 1998 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Norfolk, VA. Handclaps evoke chirped echoes from the staircases of the Pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza. The physics of the chirped echo can ...

Five cardboard boxes showed up at the Geographic one morning. Their contents: priceless Maya artifacts to be returned to Mesoamerica. Get the story and eye treasures long locked away from public view.

TIKAL Place where spirit voices are heard. May - June, 1895 August - November, 1904. The Mayas believe that at midnight (especially during the great festivals), their ancestors return to earth and, adorned as in the days of their glory, wander about in the forsaken temples and palaces, where their spirit-voices are heard in the air. Central Temple of a Row of Seven Temples, East (Rear) Side.

VIRTUAL TOUR ONE DAY, IN CHICHEN ITZA WHAT'S CHICHEN ITZA Chichen Itza is in the south of Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. It means Where the Wise Men of the Water live And the trive which conquered this city in 10th century is called Itza. Each construnction has a kind of weird story, which makes this site very exciting. I'm a priest. I'm a warrior. I'm a girl. I'm a prisoner. THE KUKULCAN PYRAMID ...

Maya Book Click here for Maya Books & More Store with more than 80 books to choose from! Tulum ... what seems to take on a little town appearance is one of the most beautiful Maya Ruins to visit. The coast of Quintana Roo is bathed by shallow, crystal-clear, green-blue waters, lined by beaches of fine white sand, punctuated by numerous coves, bays and islands, with a backdrop of lush tropical ...

Log on Chichen Itza Castillo Ballcourt 1, 000 Warriors Venus Platform Osario Osario Osario Osario Venus deity Temple of Xtoloc Casa Colorado La Iglesia Las Monjas La Iglesia La Iglesia La Iglesia House of Four Lintels House of Four Lintels House of Four Lintels House of Four Lintels Warrior Warrior Three Lintels Ballcourt Reliefs 1, 000 Warriors Castillo 1, 000 Warriors 1, 000 Warriors Cenote 1, 000 ...

MAYAN RUINS AND UNEXPLAINED ACOUSTICS Undocumented acoustical engineering at some of the Mayan ruins... by Wayne Van Kirk The Great Ballcourt The Great Ballcourt is 545 feet long and 225 feet wide overall. It has no vault, no discontinuity between the walls and is totally open to the sky. The Great Ballcourt has no curved surfaces. Each end has a raised temple area. A whisper from one end can be ...

The ruins of a Maya city have been discovered near a tributary of the Rio San Pedro in northern Guatemala.

The Mayan City of Chichen Itza Chichen Itza is the most impressive and intact ruins of Mayan civilization that the modern world has. This now popular tourist attraction is located on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and has fast become the best restored record of the spiritual, domestic, and agricultural lives of these people. Mayan ruins in central America, such as Chichen Itza, are remnants of ...

Maya Photo Adventures Homepage | Valladolid | La Piramide de Kukulkan | Tulum | Coba | Xcaret | Cozumel | Tikal Chichen Itza, Mexico - La Piramide de Kukulkan - These images are Copyright images and are not to be used without written permission of the ownerJohn C. Mureiko. Click here for popular Chichen Itza Books in Association with Amazon.com EL Castillo, or Kulkulkan's Pyramid is without ...

An inventory of monuments looted from an elusive Maya site ...

Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico ...