mayan culture
Breaking the Maya Code
The discovery of Mayan hieroglyphs qualifies as something of a miracle in and of itself, given the 16th Century Spaniards’ systematic destruction of all books, monuments and pottery bearing the written language. History took a [...]
The Ancient Maya: Power Centers
A superpower of its age, the Maya grew from a marginal ethnic group to Central America’s dominant military, cultural, and mercantile society–all without the aid of metal tools of beasts of burden. In this eye-opening [...]
