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This image of painted bowls at Chichen Itza comes from saguayo’s photostream.
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This photo of a table top painted with images of colorful fruit, taken in a crafts shop in Dolor…Photo Wednesday: motmots

This image of turquoise-browed motmots comes from jvverde’s photostream.

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This image of the National Palace and downtown [...]

Incidents of virtual travel in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and greater Mesoamerica

Animal Del Monte Festival in Xela, Guatemala

A call to save Mirador Basin, the cradle of Maya civilization
An interactive guide to reading Maya heiroglyphs
Riviera Maya to get its own airport
Desalojan a invasores del parque natural Yaxhá
Video report on Aztec palace found in Mexico City

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This view of Agua Volcano from somewhere near the Parqueo Central in Antigua, Guatemala, is from hexod.us’ photostream.
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Conceivably Related PostsFuego volcano eruptionFuego volcano, near Antigua, Guatemal, erupted in November. Inner Diablog posted a photo by Aldo Bon…Sites we like: La Antigua Daily PhotoYou can hardly go wrong with Antigua, but Rudy Girón goes the [...]

It almost seems that half of Central and North America has been flooded lately. Southern Belize was particularly hard hit by tropical storm Arthur.

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Francis Ford Coppola, inspired by his experience filming Apocalypse Now in the Philippines, de…Maya symbology: jaguar

According to joiseyshowaa, from whose photoset this image [...]

Buried Mirror is on medical leave and will be back soon.
Conceivably Related PostsFriday RoundupSifting through a week of digging the internet

Rivera winning back acclaim from Kahlo
Anti-Ira…San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Guatemala 

This photo was taken a long time ago in Aguas Calientes, near La Antigua, Guatemala. The town …Ancient pyramid found in Mexico CityThe pyramid, about 36 [...]

Okay, here’s the fourth and final clue. This picture was not taken in Guatemala, but surely it will reveal the photographer featured in this week’s previous posts.

Conceivably Related PostsEdweard MuybridgeA reader named “Yes” correctly identified the photographer of this week’s photos as Eadweard Muybrid…Photo quiz, part 3Here’s another image by our mystery photographer (see also [...]

Jonathan Dunham was working as a substitute teacher in the Portland, Oregon, public schools when, a couple of years ago, he just started walking. He walked south to Texas, crossing the border at Tamaulipas. He stopped there long enough to do chores on a family farm; when he decided it was time to resume walking, [...]

An exhibition of Mexican prints is showing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, through January 13. The following copy is from the museum’s website:
The artists included range from José Guadalupe Posada, influential figure in modern Mexican printmaking, to Leopoldo Méndez, Pablo O´Higgins, and Alfredo Zalce, all members of the Taller de Gráfica Popular [...]

Around this time of year we start to see a lot of poinsettias. The plant is native to western Mexico and Guatemala. For the Aztecs the poinsettia (which they called cuetlaxochitl) was a symbol of purity (rather like the lotus in East Asia). I expect the red color would suggest blood to most ancient Mesoamerican [...]

Un nuevo servicio llamado BlogRush ha lanzado, que promete conducir tráfico a su blog. El servicio requiere la instalación del código del Javascript que carga un widget en su sitio.
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A hairless breed of Mexican dog known as Xoloitzcuintles (show-low-eets-KWEENT-les, commonly called Itzcuintles in Mexic and Xolos elsewhere) is growing in popularity. The dog’s history is said to “date back to the Aztecs” (whatever that means). Near extinction, it was rescued by a group who rounded up enough dogs from remote mountain villages to launch [...]

I’m in the process of moving my Maya materials over here to www.buriedmirror.com from the Maya World section of www.rightreading.com where they had resided. I don’t think this will take too long, but there could be a few goofy issues with links, images, etc. while I’m setting up my 301 redirects and doing the other [...]