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How to execute the feared enemies of the Mayans
Researchers from the University of Bonn point out, the ancient Mayans executed their enemies by cutting their heads, cutting their hands and feet and burying them all.
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Pok-a-tok: The terrible Mayan ball sacrifice game
Football is always a king sport that captivates millions of hearts in the world. Before the football matches like today, the ancient Mayans also held similar football ma…
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See how the Mayan color is painted
Ancient Mayans decorated the walls of palaces, temples, handwritten manuscripts, painted ceramics and painted dead bodies before burying the sacred wells with a color bl…
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The Maya predicted the solar eclipse before 8 centuries
Recent research shows that ancient Mayans could accurately predict astronomical events that took place centuries later.
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The answer to the development of the ancient Maya empire
In the country of Guatemala today, every year, the entire Tikal city area of the ancient Mayan people suffered from droughts, without a single drop of rain within 4 mo…
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Mayan civilization may have been destroyed by drought
Previously, scholars believed that a serious drought could have killed the ancient Maya culture that was famous for mastering language, mathematics and astronomy. Howeve…
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May Maya civilization collapse due to deforestation?
The collapse of ancient Mayan civilization has long been considered a mystery, because of the hundreds of reasons that scholars have given to explain this collapse, ther…
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Uxmal City: Ancient Mayan civilization is still unknown
Along with other areas in the north like Chichen Itza, the ancient city of Uxmal survived the collapse that affected most of the Mayan civilization's other cities.
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Who teaches the Maya how to calculate the calendar?
The Mayan created a boom in mathematics, to be able to record events over the years to determine the time of planting and harvesting, accurately calculating the weather…
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10 thrilling things about Maya civilization
Maya civilization not only stands out by the well-developed ancient writing system, but also has incredible art, architecture and astronomical and mathematical systems.
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The 10 most interesting mysteries of lost civilizations (Part 1)
Most Egyptians learned that the Sphinx on the Giza plateau was about 4,500 years old. But this number is only a hypothesis, not a proof.
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Uncover the secret of the
A Mexican archaeologist found a large amount of liquid mercury under a Mayan pyramid in Teotihuacan, America's most mysterious ancient city.
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The sacred book of the Mayans
Created by Mayan stories of the world, religion, history, astronomy, myths, the book Popol Vuh attracted the attention of scholars throughout the planet.
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Open the Mayan hell gate
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is littered with thousands of mysterious caves that once served as a haven for prehistoric people and later became a sacred Mayan sacrifice.
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Mysterious beam of light on top of the Mayan pyramid
In 2009, when the Hector Siliezar family visited the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza, with his iPhone, he took three photos of the El Castillo pyramid (Mexico) - once…