Hello group! The Usumacinta issue is not over. In fact, the situation is getting out of hand. The site of Piedras Negras is in serious trouble. And sadly, the...
Hi everyone! For those living in California or going there, here's a couple of academic events on the ancient Maya not to be missed. "Mysteries of Ancient Maya...
Hello group! For those living in or going to Chicago between October 2006 and January 2007, you may be interested in "The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial...
Hi Martin and all. I will be attending the San Bartolo Symposium in Irvine, and have plans to attend the Simon Martin talk in San Francisco as well. We don't...
Hi Martin, Thanks for posting the interesting articles about climatic research that makes the case for droughts bringing down the Classic Maya civilization....
Hi Martin, Mike and all : I have just found this news in a newspaper from Guatemala called "El periodico". I´m sorry but is in Spanish but I know you are...
Hello everyone! Interesting discoveries about the Maya collapse are being made at a site I visited some years ago in El Salvador. Tazumal didn't look like much...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5347080.stm 'Oldest' New World writing found By Helen Briggs Science reporter, BBC News The slab contains a...
Hi all ! Today morning I have found the new in El Pais (the most famous newspaper in Spain)and I was posted it but I see "Cygnusislandiae" has been faster than...
Thanks to both of you for passing on the news article about the Olmec slab. It is truely a great find! Unfortunately the way the news release was written...
Hi everyone! Thanks for posting the news on the Cascajal block. Here's a more complete article from Mesoweb. http://www.mesoweb.com/reports/Cascajal.pdf Martin...
CENTROAMERICA: La relación entre los Mayas y la Selva. (Fuente: Antonio Elio Brailovsky / Ecoportal, Chaskinayrampi). Además de Teotihuacán, en Mesoamérica...
Hello everyone! For those interested in learning more about the Cascajal block, here's another link with information, sources, links to related topics, a high ...
Hi all! For those living in Europe or travelling there in December, you may be interested in the 11th European Maya Conference on "Ecology, Power, and Religion...
Hi group ! I have just come from New York. I have spent one week there and I enjoyed a lot. NY is a very beautiful city.It was not a mayan trip but yesterday I...
Hello mayakaab and all! Thanks for the news. Here's other news from Mexico City. Researchers in Mexico discover sculpture http://tinyurl.com/kpm8k Descubren un...
Hello group! Thanks to all who have been posting news articles. It's not easy to stay up to date, but when members share information it becomes enjoyable. Here...
Hi group ! althouhg it is possible most of you know this web, I find it today and I see includes several maps of differents mayan sites, books, tours and...
Hello everyone! Thanks for the link mayakaab. I did know about the website but did not know about those maps. For someone interested in architecture like ...
Hello group! A friend of mine just finished his latest music album entitled "Pop Wooh". For many years, Alejandro Sanchez has been making replicas of ancient...
Hi everyone! Here's more details about the giant monolith being excavated in Mexico City. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061013/sc_nm/mexico_aztecs_dc_1 Martin...
Hi to all. Last weekend I attended the Maya Murals symposium at U.C. Irvine in southern California. This one-day event was actually a followup to the San...
Minor correction: Discussing the Teotihuacan warrior murals at the Maya site of Sufricaya, I wrote that Heather Hurst suggested that the murals do not...
Hello group! Thanks alot for telling us about the Mural Symposium. You are very fortunate to live near such dynamic institutions in the field of Maya studies....
Hi Martin. Actually I often have the same lament you mentioned -- not having much happening about Maya archaeology nearby. The Maya Murals symposium took...
Hi Mike and all! Indeed, 8 hours of driving is pretty far but when you live in eastern Canada, 8 hours of flying is not even a possibility. Toronto, Ottawa, ...