Category: ruins

Maya Symbology: Parrot

This parrot is carved in stone near the top of the Great Pyramid at the classic Maya site of Uxmal in the Yucatan. “Uxmal” means thrice-built, but archaeologists…

A new discovery at El Mirador

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy A pair of monumental (26-foot) stucco panels have been discovered at the important classic Maya site…

View from the Mohoch Mul temple, Coba

We all know that the classic Maya temple was a place of religious ritual. But these structures must also have been pretty handy during times of conflict (most…

Tikal admission hike

Admission to Tikal for foreigners will rise to about US $20. I don’t think this will trouble many people unduly. >> POSTING WILL BE LIGHT for a while…

View of temple 1, Tikal, from east plaza

This is a watercolor I did some years ago.

Tulum and Dean

The Maya ruins of Tulum are located on the Yucatan coast, in the southern Riviera Maya. Tulum is not exactly a major Maya site. It’s a late one,…

Aventura

Archaeologists have discovered traces of an ancient Maya city in a papaya plantation in the Corozal area of Belize. The find includes three Mayan foundations tentatively dated to…

Interactive Copan Map

PAPAC, the Proyecto Arqueologico para la Planificacion de la Antigua Copan (Copan Urban Planning Project) has announced a new interactive map of the ruins. In truth there isn’t…

The Hand of Time

What better way to begin than with this poignant sign of an unknown Maya reaching out through the centuries to touch our world. (I say to begin because…

The Observatory at Chichen Itza

I’m having some trouble getting my Maya materials online because there are so many of them, and there’s just so little time. So, we’ll do this one building…