Beneath a spanish convent, underneath a street. A unique language, the maya writing system consists of ‘glyphs’ that represent both image and sound (logograms and syllabograms). The mysterious maya have intrigued the world since their discovery in the 1840's.
A large reservoir of mayan inscriptions on stelae, lintels,. The spanish started their conquest of. The maya are the indigenous mesoamerican people occupying a nearly continuous territory in southern mexico, guatemala, and northern belize.
Society was organized hierarchically within each maya kingdom, including kings, nobles, warriors,. Most of it was covered in vines and vegetation, reclaimed by the jungle. Two thousand years ago, the ancient maya developed one of the. Evidence of mayan civilization was everywhere:
The maya, a civilization of indigenous people in central america, created a complex mayan calendar and massive pyrami. Although mayan text may be laid out in varying manners, generally it is arranged into double columns of glyph blocks. The term mayan refers to the language while maya references the people and their culture.