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  2. Maya codices - Wikipedia

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    Maya codices (sg.: codex) are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper. The folding books are the products of professional scribes working under the patronage of deities such as the Tonsured Maize God and the Howler Monkey Gods. The codices have been named for the cities ...

  3. Ancient Maya: The Rise and Fall of a Rainforest Civilization

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    The book discusses the complex lifestyle and political history of the Maya states, from the first to eighth centuries. It also gives an explanation of the mystery of the ninth-century abandonment of most of the great rainforest cities. It concludes that the Maya civilization has lessons for modern civilization.

  4. Dresden Codex - Wikipedia

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    The Dresden Codex is a Maya book, which was believed to be the oldest surviving book written in the Americas, dating to the 11th or 12th century. [1] However, in September 2018 it was proven that the Maya Codex of Mexico , previously known as the Grolier Codex, is, in fact, older by about a century. [ 2 ]

  5. Maya civilization - Wikipedia

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    The Maya civilization (/ ˈ m aɪ ə /) was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period. It is known by its ancient temples and glyphs (script). The Maya script is the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas .

  6. Mesoamerican literature - Wikipedia

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    The Testaments of Culhuacan, a set sixteenth-century wills bound together as a book, concentrated in the 1580s [11] and the source for a social history of the town. [12] The Ixil Testaments, a book of Yucatec Maya native-language wills from the 1760s, [13] used as a source of Yucatec Maya history. [14]

  7. Lost Cities of the Maya - Wikipedia

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    Lost Cities of the Maya (French: Les cités perdues des Mayas) is a 1987 illustrated monograph on Maya archaeology.Co-written by the French Mayanist and iconologist Claude-François Baudez and art historian Sydney Picasso, and published in pocket format by Éditions Gallimard as the 20th volume in their "Découvertes" collection [1] (known as "Abrams Discoveries" in the United States, and "New ...

  8. Diego de Landa - Wikipedia

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    The writings are the main contemporary source for Maya history, [18] without which the knowledge of Maya ethnology would be devastatingly small. [21] Much more would now be known about Mayan history and culture if de Landa had not burned anywhere from 27 to what Mayan Historian George Stuart speculates as "hundreds, maybe thousands of [Maya] books.

  9. Maya Codex of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    The Maya Codex of Mexico (MCM) is a Maya screenfold codex manuscript of a pre-Columbian type. Long known as the Grolier Codex or Sáenz Codex , in 2018 it was officially renamed the Códice Maya de México [ 1 ] (CMM) by the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico.

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