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Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya
The Maya are of enormous and abiding fascination to anybody interested in archaeology, ancient history, astronomy, or the visual arts. From the 3rd century BC to the 14th century AD, while Europe was deep in the Dark and Middle Ages, the Maya were producing astonishing sculpture, stelae, and wall murals, and building magnificent temples, palaces, tombs, and ball courts. No...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
November 1st 2012
by Vendome Press
(first published October 1st 2012)
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Ancient Maya allegedly predicted the end of the world would happen on December 21, 2012. If you believe that, you’ve been misled.
Archaeologists have indeed found ancient hieroglyphs that indicate that the 5000-year cycle of the Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012, and the Guatemalan government capitalized on the “end of time” sensationalism as a tourism draw. But an alliance of Maya in Guatemala would like you to know that the meaning of the hieroglyphics discovered by archaeologists is qu...more
Archaeologists have indeed found ancient hieroglyphs that indicate that the 5000-year cycle of the Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012, and the Guatemalan government capitalized on the “end of time” sensationalism as a tourism draw. But an alliance of Maya in Guatemala would like you to know that the meaning of the hieroglyphics discovered by archaeologists is qu...more
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