Month: July 2007

Antigua Door Knockers

Tigre fe54 has a nice set of door knocker photos from Antigua, Guatemala, at his flickr site. Clickable thumbnails appear below, via the Crossroads plugin.

Gibson Girl

San Bernardino County Museum curator Adella Schroth admits the exhibition Five Suns: The Art of Ancient Mesoamerica (May 19-November 4, 2007) was inspired by Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto. That’s…

Stela B, Copan

In every civilization of the ancient world, there are art works and monuments that stand out among their fellows as objects of special character. The great portrait sculptures…

Are we done now?

Thank heavens that‘s over. The three most annoying idiot topics related to the Maya: New seven wonders of the world Maya 2012 prophesy Mel’s Gibson Apocalypto If these…

Borges at Uxmal

Over at Right Reading I’ve posted some comments about Borges’s trip to Uxmal when he was eighty.

Apocalypse 2012

I’ve seen a lot of posts about the coming End of Days — to occur in 2012 according to the Maya calendar — in my feeds, and I’ve…