WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On the wall of a tiny structure buried under forest debris in Guatemala, archaeologists have discovered a scribe's notes about the Maya lunar calendar, which they say could be the first known records by an official chronicler of this ancient civilization. full story ![]()

A newly excavated building at the Mayan archaeological site of Ceibal, Guatemala, has yielded the oldest solar observatory in Central America discovered so far. It has also cast more light on the origin of the Maya civilization, altering a decades...
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The Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, which is based on the lunisolar Chinese calendar, is celebrated from the first day of the first month of the lunar year and ends with Lantern Festival on the 15th dayJosy Forsdike
guardian.co.uk (4 months and 9 days ago)

Archaeologists who analyzed a buried structure at the Ceibal site in Guatemala suggest that Maya culture grew from an amalgam of influences.The classic Maya civilization, which flourished in Central America for more than 600 years, has been celebrated for its vast city states adorned with monumental pyramids and for its technological feats such as the development of an...
latimes.com (1 month and 23 days ago)

Researchers began decoding the glyphic language of the ancient Maya long ago, but the internet is helping them finish the job and write the history of this enigmatic Meso-American civilisation. For centuries, scholars understood little about Maya script beyond its elegant astronomical calculations and calendar.The Maya had dominated much of Central America and southern...
guardian.co.uk (21 days ago)
Ana Caba fled her home to live in remote mountains for nearly a decade after Guatemalan troops razed her indigenous Maya village and dozens like it in a brutal counter-insurgency campaign in the early 1980s.
nytimes.com (1 month and 6 days ago)
Becker’s lunar calendar: Year of the Bike by Christopher Smart The Salt Lake Tribune Published Feb 9, 2013 01:01AM MDT The Chinese zodiac may have 2013 down as the “Year of the Snake,” but, according to Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker’s reading of the lunar calendar, it’s the “Year of the Bike.” Or so he said in his State of the City address last month. But what exactly...
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By Mike McDonald GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Ana Caba fled her home to live in remote mountains for nearly a decade after Guatemalan troops razed her indigenous Maya village and dozens like it in a brutal counter-insurgency campaign in the early 1980s. Caba witnessed rapes and kidnappings and endured bombing raids after dictator Efrain Rios Montt took power in a 1982 coup and...
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Becker’s lunar calendar: Year of the Bike for Salt Lake City by Christopher Smart The Salt Lake Tribune Published Feb 9, 2013 02:19PM MDT The Chinese zodiac may have 2013 down as the “Year of the Snake,” but, according to Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker’s reading of the lunar calendar, it’s the “Year of the Bike.” Or so he said in his State of the City address last month....
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Dating of an elaborately carved wooden beam from a temple in an ancient Maya city confirms the calendar ended last December. ->
discovery.com (2 months and 4 days ago)
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Forensic experts say they have discovered eight bodies in a clandestine grave in western Guatemala that dates back to 1982, when former Gen. Efrain Rios Montt was ruling the country amid a civil war.
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