http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/maya/ en-us Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:56:54 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2155248/posts I don't know if this is the proper way to format a vanity, but I figured someone on FR would know the answer to this question. I have seen in many Obama-birth-certificate-related articles the claim that Maya Soetoro-Ng has given two different locations for the birth hospital of Obama. Most recently I've seen this claim made in World Net Daily articles on the subject. The problem is that I've been unable to verify this was the case. I've contacted WND, and they've ignored me -- I simply asked for attribution. No response thus far. Does anyone have any reliable proof... Me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2155248/posts#comment Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:56:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062307/posts Archaeologists discovered maze of stone temples in underground caves MEXICO CITY - Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld. MSNBC via Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062307/posts#comment Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:57:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002709/posts Analysis of Rare Textiles From Honduras Ruins Suggests Mayans Produced Fine Fabrics An analysis of textile fragments excavated from a 5th century Mayan tomb in Honduras, some of the few surviving textiles from the Mayan civilization, revealed high quality fabrics produced by highly skilled spinners and weavers. Newswise — Very few textiles from the Mayan culture have survived, so the treasure trove of fabrics excavated from a tomb at the Copán ruins in Honduras since the 1990s has generated considerable excitement. Textiles conservator Margaret Ordoñez, a professor at the University of Rhode Island, spent a month at the site in... Newswise http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002709/posts#comment Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:10:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1997257/posts Time Line of Decipherment When the Spanish conquered the Maya empire in the 16th century, they forced their new subjects to convert to Christianity and speak and write in Spanish. But long before the Maya used the Roman alphabet, they had created their own rich and elegant script, featuring more than 800 hieroglyphs. Sadly, the glyphs' meanings were lost in the decades following the Conquest. Ever since, scholars have struggled to decode these symbols, pronounce the words they form, and understand the stories they tell. In this time line, follow the centuries-long decipherment, which has only recently reached the point... Nova - PBS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1997257/posts#comment Sat, 5 Apr 2008 19:16:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1976686/posts Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts across Mesoamerica from about A.D. 300 to 1500. First identified in 1931, this blue pigment (known as Maya Blue) has puzzled archaeologists, chemists and material scientists for years because of its unusual chemical stability, composition and persistent color in one of the world’s harshest climates. The anthropologists solved another old mystery, namely the presence of a 14-foot layer of blue precipitate found at the bottom of the... physorg.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1976686/posts#comment Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:17:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973759/posts Satellites spot lost Guatemala Mayan temples Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:29pm EST GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Ancient Mayan astronomers aligned their soaring temples with the stars and now modern archeologists have found the ruins of hidden cities in the Guatemalan jungle by peering down from space. Archeologists and NASA scientists began teaming up five years ago to search for clues about the mysterious collapse of the Mayan civilization that flourished in Central America and southern Mexico for 1,000 years. The work is paying off, says archeologist William Saturno, who recently discovered five sprawling sites with hundreds of buildings using a... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973759/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:28:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1958339/posts The victims of human sacrifice by Mexico's ancient Mayans, who threw children into water-filled caverns, were likely boys and young men not virgin girls as previously believed, archeologists said on Tuesday... Maya priests in the city of Chichen Itza in the Yucatan peninsula sacrificed children to petition the gods for rain and fertile fields by throwing them into sacred sinkhole caves, known as "cenotes." The caves served as a source of water for the Mayans and were also thought to be an entrance to the underworld. Archeologist Guillermo de Anda from the University of Yucatan pieced together the bones of... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1958339/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:00:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606235/posts CANCUN, Mexico - On a neighborly sightseeing jaunt Thursday with the leaders of Mexico and Canada, President Bush said the three were working to improve vital relationships that can better the lives of all their people. Mexican President Vicente Fox treated Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to an hour-long tour of the ancient Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza before they began two days of talks amid spring breakers in this Caribbean resort city. "This is a good start to a very important series of discussions," Bush said, standing alongside the other two with the massive pyramid called "El... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606235/posts#comment Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:50:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797805/posts Mayan leaders announced that priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after US President George W. Bush visits next week. "That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture," Juan Tiney, the director of a national association of indigenous people and peasant farmers, said Thursday. Bush's seven-day tour of Latin America includes a stopover beginning late Sunday in Guatemala. On Monday morning he is scheduled... The Jeruselem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797805/posts#comment Fri, 9 Mar 2007 03:25:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1798099/posts Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday. "That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture," Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday. Bush's seven-day tour of Latin America includes a stopover beginning late Sunday... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1798099/posts#comment Fri, 9 Mar 2007 17:24:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799305/posts Mayan leaders will spiritually "cleanse" ancient ruins in Guatemala after a visit by US President George Bush, unpopular because of foreign policies going back to Central America's civil wars. The leaders said they would hold a spiritual ceremony to restore "peace and harmony" at the Mayan ruins of Iximche after Bush tours the site on Monday. "No, Mr Bush, you cannot trample and degrade the memory of our ancestors," said indigenous leader Rodolfo Pocop during a press conference. "This is not your ranch in Texas." "We've burned this flag for what the Yankee did all over the world." Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799305/posts#comment Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:52:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799687/posts President Bush’s most recent trip to Latin America has brought with it the standard anti-U.S. protests. Most of these being nearly identical to the ones that are regularly held on weekdays in the United States where participants are not actually missing work, American flags are lit on fire, and rioters hold poorly spelled signs and scream in broken English. By some estimates, the most recent protest in Bogata drew as many as 250-300 Third Worlders who took time out of their busy schedules of chewing coca leaves, kidnapping for ransom, and playing soccer with rolled up rags on dirt lawns,... thenoseonyourface.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799687/posts#comment Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:10:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957788/posts 1500-year-old Mayan paint job peeled back Jill Rowbotham | January 23, 2008 MORE secrets of the Mayan civilisation are being revealed via groundbreaking research into paint pigments used on a temple at one of the culture's most significant sites: Copan, in Honduras. Brisbane physical and chemical sciences PhD student Rosemary Goodall used an infrared analysis technique, FTIR-ATR spectral imaging, never before applied in archeology. It revealed a map of the painted surfaces of stucco masks that adorn the corners of the Rosalila temple, built in about AD550. Mrs Goodall found that the Mayans mixed finely ground muscovite mica in their... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957788/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:24:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951299/posts The findings, archaeologists say, are some of the first strong evidence that the ancient Maya civilization, at least in places and at certain times, had a market economy similar in some respects to societies today. The conventional view has been that food and other goods in Maya cities were distributed through taxation and tributes controlled by the ruling class. Archaeologists suspected that a wide clearing at the center of the ruins of Chunchucmil might have been a market, not a ritual plaza. Rock alignments peeking above the surface seemed to outline the positions of stalls and regular pathways; the rock... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951299/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:24:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937206/posts Physicists explore subatomic particle strategy for revealing archaeological secrets At its most glamorous, the life of an experimental high-energy physicist consists of smashing obscure subatomic particles with futuristic-sounding names into each other to uncover truths about the universe—using science's biggest, most expensive toys in exciting locations such as Switzerland or Illinois. But it takes a decade or two to plan and build multibillion-dollar atom smashers. While waiting, what's a thrill-seeking physicist to do? How about using some of the perfectly good, and completely free, subatomic particles that rain down on Earth from space every day to peek inside something really... Science News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937206/posts#comment Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:31:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936809/posts Muons Meet the MayaPhysicists explore subatomic particle strategy for revealing archaeological secrets Betsy Mason At its most glamorous, the life of an experimental high-energy physicist consists of smashing obscure subatomic particles with futuristic-sounding names into each other to uncover truths about the universe—using science's biggest, most expensive toys in exciting locations such as Switzerland or Illinois. But it takes a decade or two to plan and build multibillion-dollar atom smashers. While waiting, what's a thrill-seeking physicist to do? SUBATOMIC ARCHAEOLOGY. Physicists plan to use muons generated by cosmic rays to probe the interior of the Pyramid of the Sun at... Science News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936809/posts#comment Sun, 9 Dec 2007 03:18:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1935088/posts Chemical residues found in soil from Mexico's Yucatan peninsula indicate that ancient Mayans traded food in marketplaces, a practice long considered unlikely by archaeologists... [yet] archaeologists have long recognized that the cities were home to more people than the local agricultural capacities could have supported... So for years, archaeologists looked for evidence of advanced farming practices that could have ramped up agricultural capacities beyond what archaeologists can observe, thus sustaining the populations. The idea that Mayans might have imported food and other goods wasn't taken seriously because most archaeologists thought that the Maya elite had a system whereby underlings were... LiveScience http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1935088/posts#comment Wed, 5 Dec 2007 17:21:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934591/posts Rare Maya "Death Vase" Discovered Blake de Pastino National Geographic News Updated December 4, 2007 An extremely rare and intricately carved "death vase" has been discovered in the 1,400-year-old grave of an elite figure with ties to the Maya Empire, scientists say. The vase is the first of its kind to be found in modern times, and its contents are opening a window onto ancient rituals of ancestor worship that included food offerings, chocolate enemas, and hallucinations induced by vomiting, experts say. Archaeologists discovered the vase along with parts of a human skeleton while excavating a small "palace" in northwestern... National Geographic News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934591/posts#comment Tue, 4 Dec 2007 18:29:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928352/posts Maya rulers' growing demand for animals of symbolic value may have caused a decline in big game, like jaguars, in ancient Latin America, a new study suggests. Faced with environmental problems and doubts about their ability to provide for their followers, the Maya elite may have ordered more hunting of large mammals whose meat, skins, and teeth provided proof of power and status, the study says. Kitty Emery, an archaeologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has studied 80,000 animal bones found in 25 Maya trash mounds to map the effects of ancient hunting on animal populations over 4,000... National Geographic News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928352/posts#comment Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:20:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843797/posts Aventura - ancient Maya city discovered on modern papaya farm in Corozal Friday, 01 June 2007 By Joseph Stamp Romero - Staff Reporter Excavated structure where platform was found. Platform can be seen to the left of the gentleman. Archeologists say they have stumbled on three Mayan foundations, which are part of a large Mayan city called Aventura, dating back to the early Classic Period of the Mayan Civilization. Among the artifacts retrieved are the bones a man and a woman, believed to be 1,800 years old. The Belize National Institute of Archaeology have said that they found what appears... The Reporter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843797/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jun 2007 21:05:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806183/posts Political correctness has so disemboweled academic standards that Ph.D. truly means "pile it higher and deeper." Case in point: Alicia Estrada, an assistant professor of Central American studies at California State University, Northridge, Thursday night accused Mel Gibson "of misrepresenting the Mayan culture in the movie" Apocalypto. Estrada, in a superior display of historic ignorance, stated "that representations in the movie that the Mayans engaged in sacrificial ceremonies and had bloodthirsty tendencies were both wrong and racist."Quite to the contrary, archeological evidence of Maya "sacrificial ceremonies" and "bloodthirsty tendencies" are ubiquitous. It all started with the discovery of murals at... http://netwmd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806183/posts#comment Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:56:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799501/posts Mr Bush will speak about social justice and equality President George W Bush is in Guatemala for a one-day visit, after a stop in Colombia where he pledged his personal support to its fight against drugs. He will discuss security, trade and immigration with Guatemala's president. This is the fourth stop in Mr Bush's tour of Latin America, which has seen protests at every stage. Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, has used a parallel tour of the region to speak out against what he calls the interference of the "American empire". Mr Chavez started his tour last week in Argentina,... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799501/posts#comment Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:14:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1762414/posts Collapse of civilisations linked to monsoon changes 11:13 04 January 2007 NewScientist.com news service Catherine Brahic The downfall of the one of the greatest Chinese dynasties may have been catalysed by severe changes in climate. The same climate changes may have simultaneously led to the end of the Maya civilisation depicted in Mel Gibson's new film Apocalypto. So says Gerald Haug of the GeoForschungsZentrum in Germany and colleagues, who studied geological records of monsoons over the past 16,000 years. They have found a startling correlation between climate extremes and the fall of two great civilisations: the Tang dynasty in China... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1762414/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:32:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1750195/posts Some descendants of the Maya tribes depicted in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto have denounced the movie as racist and not representative of their ancient culture. In an interview with Reuters, Ignacio Ochoa, director of the Nahual Foundation, said, "Gibson replays, in glorious big budget Technicolor, an offensive and racist notion that Maya people were brutal to one another long before the arrival of Europeans and thus they deserved, in fact, needed, rescue." Lucio Yaxon, described by Reuters as a 23-year-old Mayan human rights activist, added, "Basically, the director is saying the Mayans are savages." Today's (Thursday) Los Angeles Times noted that... IMDB.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1750195/posts#comment Fri, 8 Dec 2006 03:11:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717172/posts Ancient Canoe Found by Wichita State University Professor on Belize Research Dig WICHITA, Kan., Oct. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- An ancient canoe -- more than likely the oldest canoe ever uncovered in Mesoamerica -- was discovered this summer in a cliff-top cave in Belize by an excavation team being led by Wichita State University archaeologist Keith Prufer. Prufer estimates that the canoe very likely dates to 200 to 800 AD, based on previous findings in the area. Carbon testing is currently being wrapped up to confirm that the canoe is indeed the oldest found in Mesoamerica, the geographical region from... Ascribe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717172/posts#comment Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:39:38 GMT