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Lives of the Gods: Met exhibition on Maya art guided by Yale scholarship

“Lives of the Gods: Divinity and Maya Art,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, explores how people give material shape to their religious beliefs. When it came to ...
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For the Maya, solar eclipses were a sign of heavenly clashes − and their astronomers kept sophisticated records to predict them

(The Conversation) — The skies and the gods were inseparable in Maya culture. Astronomers kept careful track of events like eclipses in order to perform the renewal ceremonies to continue the world’s ...
The Conversation

Centuries ago, the Maya storm god Huracán taught that when we damage nature, we damage ourselves

James L. Fitzsimmons does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
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The rise and fall of Maya civilization

NMAI copy 39088007823347 has bookplate: In honor of Suzanne Ripley. AIMMRC copy 39088014427520 is a gift of Jane Safer. I. Prologue: Some problems posed ; Geography and environment ; Language and ...
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The rise and fall of Maya civilization by J. Eric S. Thompson

Part 1. Prologue. Some problems posed -- Geography and environment -- Language and population -- Physical appearance and psychological traits -- Search and research -- Dating Maya history and the ...