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The most unique Mayan five stories temple in Edzna, Mexico.
This beautiful map of Mayan cities - or Mundo Maya - shows all of the major ancient Maya cities and archaeological sites and is an excellent guide for planning your tour of the Mayan region.
“Even we who have seen these things with our own eyes, are yet so amazed as to be unable to comprehend their reality” Cortes in a letter to King Charles V. He was so overwhelmed by the grandeur of the great Aztec city that he was not sure how to…
Calakmul is deep in thought, sketching designs for a new stela, surrounded by various Mayan symbols and glyphs on other stela's, all of which have a purpose and all of which are to be spread across the lands.
The empire took thousands of years to build and just 100 years to collapse.
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Sediment under a lake in Mexico quantifies for the first time the intensity of the drought that contributed to the Mayan civilization's collapse.
This edited article about Guatemala originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 1023 published on 17 October 1981. Colourful dancing at the temple of a Mayan city by Peter Jackson No country can offer everything, but Guatemala can claim to get very near to a full range of all that is spectacular in nature. […]
