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Mayan Links:
**Featured Site**
Yahooligans Big Picture- ANCIENT AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS
Up to date archaeology news and GREAT links. Several of which are featured below.
**More Sites**
The Science Museum of Minnesota presents Maya Adventure, a World-Wide Web site that highlights science activities and information related to ancient and modern Maya culture.
Collapse: Why do civilizations fall?
This interesting website will allow you to explore the question, " why did the great Mayan civilization fall?"
Maya Archaeology -from about.com
An amazing set of links from a comprehensive website.
The Maya photo archive allows you to view individual images from Maya Adventure, described above!
Here are websites that are chock full of photos.
Join in on an on-line adventure and learn more! This is brought to you by National Geographic so you can count on quality and accuracy.
A simple yet deep page with much useful info!!
Feeling Tikal-ish? (ugh.) Well you will when you will be be when you enter this interactive site which explores the ancient Mayan ruins of Tikal, a city that flourished over 2000 years ago in Central America! (requires quicktime 4 plug-in)
Welcome to a photo tour of selected Mayan archaeological sites in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. Inside you will find hundreds of photos, interactive maps, quotations from old explorers and archaeologists, and an online bibliography.
An interesting site with some useful information about Mayan culture.
This bi-lingual site that loads and functions well. It offers a broad array of ideas about Mayan Culture.
Welcome to the companion Web site to "Lost King of the Maya," scheduled for broadcast on February 13, 2001. The film follows the work of archeologists who are using new excavations and hieroglyphic translations to interpret the early history of Cop‡n, a Classic Maya site in northern Honduras.
Located in Chiapas, Mexico, Palenque is one of the grandest of all Maya ruins. So much has been found from this exquisite site, from the hieroglyphs and the tomb of Pacal in the Temple of Inscriptions, to the unique architecture and beautifully carved sculptures in the Palace.
Visit this site to learn about Mayan myths related to objects in the sky, and aspects of their world.
Among their other accomplishments, the ancient Mayas invented a calendar of remarkable accuracy and complexity. Learn more about it here!
This site was created by 6th graders.
An overview of the Mayans for a course on World Civilizations.
