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MAYA CALENDAR, MATH AND ASTRONOMY

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MAYAN LANGUAGE

Learn about Mayan language and writing.

MAYA ARCHITECTURE

Learn why the Maya built their temples.

MAYA BALLGAME

Learn about the ancient Mesoamerican ballgame.

MAYA MUSIC

Learn about ancient Maya music.

ANCIENT FOODS

Learn some of the foods the ancient Maya and other groups ate.

Center for Maya Research
www.precolumbia.com/bearc/CMR/home.html
The Center for Maya Research is an educational organization founded by George Stuart in 1984. The center's purpose is to encourage research in Maya anthropology and art history, including archaeology, epigraphy, ethnohistory, ethnology, and linguistics; publish educational materials and research findings with a focus on Maya writing; and conduct small-scale research projects.

Mundo Maya Online
www.mayadiscovery.com/ing/default
Pick and choose among your favorite Maya-related topics. A collection of articles on specific subjects, this website gives focused information on archaeology, nature, daily life, history, handicrafts, legends, and Maya notes - updates on developments in the Maya world.

Santiago Atitlan
www.santiagoatitlan.com
Learn more about the town of Santiago Atitlan, beautiful Lake Atitlan, and the Tz'utujil Maya. Santiago's history is explored from Maya times through the Spanish conquest, the recent Guatemalan civil war, and to today. Weaving, art, and religion sections feature detail on local traditions, worship, and the yearly religious cycle.

Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc.
www.famsi.org
www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices
Interested in doing your own studies of the Maya? For the scholarly approach, check out FAMSI's website. The foundation was "created in 1993 to foster increased understanding of ancient Mesoamerican cultures. The Foundation aims to assist and promote qualified scholars who might otherwise be unable to undertake or complete their programs of research and synthesis." The second link takes you to an illustrated explanation of the Maya codices - bark paper hieroglyphic manuscripts that survived the Spanish conquest.

Weaving the Fabric of the Cosmos
www.mesoweb.com/features/fabric/fabric00
Come and study the religious rituals around Santiago Atitlan with anthropologist Allen Christenson. The site features explanations and step-by-step photographs of the Tz'utujil Maya as they carry out traditional rituals, but is also available in a text-only format. An interview with Allen Christenson rounds out the offerings.

Popol Vuh, translated by Dennis Tedlock
www.uwec.edu/greider/Indigenous/Popol_Vuh/Popol%20Vuh
Curious about the K'iche' Maya's sacred book, the Popol Vuh? Here's the full translation (253 pages) by Dennis Tedlock. This site takes time to download, but once it's up and running, you can read all about the Maya creation myth and the adventures of the Hero Twins and their family.

Actun Tunichil Muknal
www.mayabelize.ca/maya/actun-tunichil-muknal
Walk through the Cave of the Stone Sepulchre yourself by following this first-person account of a visit to Maya caves in Belize.

Hieroglyphs and History at Copan
www.peabody.harvard.edu/Copan/text.html
On Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology Web site, read a detailed guide to Copan by Professor David Stuart (he of Tour Copan with David Stuart ). Also, view a remarkable QTVR of Copan's Altar Q, a copy of which is on exhibit at the museum.

Maya Adventure
http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/ma/top.html
The Science Museum of Minnesota's Maya Web site provides science activities and information related to ancient and modern Maya culture. Participate in a hands-on activity demonstrating how the ancient Maya etched limestone using organic dissolvers. Also, take an interactive tour through the ruins of the ancient Maya world, replete with photographs from the museum's Maya archive.

The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project
www.jefferson.village.virginia.edu/med/home.html
This networked scholarship Web site offers a wealth of information on Mayan language for anyone interested in linguistics. Even if you're a linguistic layman and don't quite know your phonemes from your morphemes, this site contains plenty of pages that will interest you, including an archive of digitally transcribed Mayan texts.

Collapse: Why do Civilizations Fall?
www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/
If you're interested in learning more about ancient fallen civilizations, visit this fun, cleverly presented Web site provided by Annenberg/CPB. The site contains dozens of pages on the Maya as well as the lost cultures of Mesopotamia, Chaco Canyon, Mali, Songhai, and more. The site also offers an interactive game that puts you in the role of a detective charged with the task of finding out why these civilizations crumbled.

Mexico Connect
www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/ldumois/maya/ldmayacity.html To read more about and see photographs of many of the Maya sites described in Map of the Maya World as well as several not covered there, visit this Web site.