MAYANS

Where did the Mayans orginate from.

The Maya are an indigenous people of Mexico and Central America who have continuously inhabited the land comprising modern-day Yucatan,Quintana,Roo,Campeche,Tabasco,and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala,Belize,El Salvador and Honduras.

Mayan architecture.

The Mayans built pyramids,temples,palaces,walls,residences and more They often decorated their building with intricate stone carving , stucco statues,and paint.Today, Maya architecture is important , as it is one of the few aspects of Maya life that still available for studies.

Mayan art.

The 700 years of the Mayan Classical saw a great flowering of Maya art.Stone carving became ubiquitous throughout the Mayan region ....The Mayan Classical age reveals an abundance of energetic artworks in stone,shells,bone,wood,obsidian,jade silver,clay,stucco,textiles and precious metals

Mayan math.

The Mayan devises a counting system that was able to represent very large numbers by using only 3 symbols,a dot,a bar,and a symbol for zero,or completion,usually a shell....The number in the third place has a value 20[2],or 400,times the value of the numeral.

Mayan calendar.

The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and in many modern communities in Guatemalan highlands,Veracruz,Oaxaca and Chiapas ,Mexico.