| In the ninth century the Mayans placed decorative inlays in anterior teeth. |
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| But until recently, when linguists like David Kelley were able to translate Mayan glyphs, we knew very little about the Mayans. |
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| Secondly, at the time of the Mayans there was no extensive agriculture in Venezuela. |
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| Before then, the Mayans, who lived in present-day Guatemala, Honduras and southern Mexico, recorded hurricanes in their hieroglyphics. |
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| We think the writing was developed by the Olmecs and then adopted later by the Mayans. |
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| The Mayans, Toltecs, and Incas were popularly believed to constitute the last flourishing of Atlantean races. |
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| Whatever virtues the Mayans might have had, predicting the future seems an unlikely one, which is something the speculators should realize. |
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| They built great pyramids, like their successors the Mayans and Aztecs. |
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| More than 2,000 years ago the Mayans used plumb bobs and chalk lines in building carved columns so finely that a row of hundreds of these would disappear behind the first one. |
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| The Incas of Peru were one of the most advanced civilizations in pre-Columbian America, rivalled only by the Mayans and the Aztecs of Mesoamerica. |
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| The Mayans, Incas and Aztecs all have had their creation myths, but these tell us equally little about how their societies actually came into being. |
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| Image two The pyramidical temple of Kukulkan, the feathered serpent of the Mayans, dominates the ancient ruins of Chichen Itza, Yucatán, Mexico. |
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| British timber-cutters imported African slaves in the 18th century, and in the 1840s Mexican Mayans fled a civil war. |
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| Mayans are thought to have preserved the seeds in underground chambers called chultunob, probably as insurance against famine. |
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| While exploring the Lacandon jungle in 1948 he discovered the last remnants of the Lacandon people, descendants of the original Mayans. |
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| These are the words of exiled Mateo Pablo, the survivor of a 1982 army massacre of 76 indigenous Mayans, now resident in Quebec. |
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| The Mayans built a pyramid over the room of murals, sealing the murals with mud and filling the room with rubble. |
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| From the Mayans to the Aztecs and their pyramids, a good number of traces remain. |
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| You know the Mayans, the Cyclopes, the initiates of ancient India and Greece, they were moving huge blocks of stone through air. |
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| The Mayans were the first people to inhabit the territories now known as Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. |
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| The Mayans grew cocoa beans more than 2,000 years ago to use as currency or for making a very bitter beverage. |
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| Massacres of Mayans, disappearances and extrajudicial killings became widespread. |
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| The seeds of collapse of some early civilizations, such as the Mayans, may have originated in soil erosion that undermined the food supply. |
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| Diamond has investigated many different instances of cultural extinction, including the Mayans, Pitcairn Islanders, the Anasazi, Norse Greenlanders and the Vikings. |
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| Doolittle is also looking to archeoastronomy-the study of the astronomy of ancient peoples-learn about the calendar systems of Aboriginal peoples like the Mayans, who had one of the ancient world's most sophisticated systems. |
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| Finally, he wished to know whether the work on the Mayan language being done by Ms Sis Iboy concerned Mayans who had emigrated from Guatemala to Belize. |
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| What do we young Mayans expect from the future? |
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| On October 18, 2007, the Supreme Court of Belize ruled that the Mayans residing in these two villages in the Toledo District had customary land tenure in the lands they occupied. |
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| This flatbread, originally made from corn, dates back to the Mayans. |
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| Our beautiful bird carries on his wings the fascinating cultural histories of the Aztecs and Mayans of Mesoamerica and the Algonquin and Iroquois Nations of the Eastern Woodlands. |
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| The absinthe Abtshof is similar to Mary Mayans, that you find in Ibiza. |
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| Most notable among these were the Mayans, who had built numerous cities throughout the region, and the Aztecs, who had created a vast empire. |
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| The majority of indigenous people are Lencas, Miskitos to the east, Mayans, Pech, Sumos, and Tolupan. |
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| Explore cultures such as the ancient Mayans or modern-day China. |
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| The Mayans in Tabasco reached their peak between the 6th and 7th centuries. |
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| The Mayans and Mexicans carried this secret, and, of course, the Indians. |
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| They reached the coast where Mayans invited them to land, but were attacked at night and only a remnant of the crew returned. |
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| Yet among Mayans the turnout was particularly dismal. |
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| Ancient Mayans in Mexico used chicle sap from sapodilla trees, while the ancient Greeks used mastiche, derived from the resin of the mastic tree. |
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| See articleA judge in Guatemala ordered Efraín Ríos Montt, the country's military dictator in 1982-83, to stand trial on charges of crimes against humanity for the killing of 1,771 Mayans during his rule. |
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| The long count calendar, one of several used by the Mayans, is based on a vigesimal system, using units of 20 k'in, or days. |
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| The resplendent quetzal the national bird of Guatemala, which shares its name with the currency and is a popular motif in art, fabric, and jewelry was worshipped and deified by the ancient Mayans and Aztecs. |
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| Formerly British Honduras, Belize has a diverse population of 250,000 Afro-Caribbeans, Hispanics, Creoles, mestizos, Mayans and others. |
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| According to some experts, ancient Mayans predicted that the 21st of December would signal the end of a 5,125-year 5,125-yearn as the Long cycle in the Mayan calendar. |
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| Thus, to refer to Maya as Mayans would be similar to referring to Spanish people as Romantics because they speak a language belonging to the Romance language family. |
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| Millions more are racially pure Mayans, Toltecs, Aztecs, and so on. |
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