This book explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers a reexamination of the mid-16th-century “Popol Vuh,” long considered an authoritative text, which is better ...

Incidents of travel : Robert Woods Bliss and the creation of the Maya collection at Dumbarton Oaks / Joanne Pillsbury and Miriam Doutriaux -- Classic Maya culture, history, and myth / Oswaldo ...

While most of europe was mired in the Dark Ages, the Maya of Mexico and Central America flourished. Living off a bounty of corn, they devised an elaborate calendar, charted stars and planets and ...

Produced to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Apr. 4-July 25, 2004; and at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, ...

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For centuries, scientists from around the globe have probed the secrets of an ancient azure pigment known as Maya blue that vanished thousands of years ago. Maya blue is singularly resilient, adding ...