Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

It is still observed by some Maya people today. The Haab calendar had 365 days ... as can be seen in the photograph below. Play this game to test your knowledge and learn even more facts about ...

To celebrate the game’s ... trapped in a vast Mayan pyramid. Inside, he learns of the Feathered Serpent Kukulkan’s misdeeds – the deity has shattered the sacred Haab calendar, dispersing ...

Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout the pre-Columbian ...

a unique calendar, and ceremonies that featured a ball game and human sacrifice. The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone ...