Here’s a link to the new website for MAM: Mayas for Ancient Mayan, an important effort to bring ancient Maya literature to indigenous communities in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. From their website: Mayas for Ancient Mayan (MAM) supports indigenous Mayas who are thirsting to learn the ancient hieroglyphic writing and the calendar. With financial aid [...]
Archive for February, 2012
MAM: Mayas for Ancient Mayan
Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Dating Tikal’s Mendez Causeway
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In an earlier post on Maya Decipherment I speculated that the lengthy text of Tikal’s Temple of the Inscriptions (or Temple VI, dedicated in 766 AD) refers in part to an early building episode of the temple, as well as to the initial construction of the Mendez Causeway — the ceremonial road leading to the [...]
