It was he who broke the Mayan codex, enabling scholars to relate the pictographs on Mayan ceramics to the hieroglyphs of the Mayan script.

Russian icons and finally Mayan ceramics.

7.6 of the population is other Mayan , 0.4 is indigenous non Mayan, making the indigenous community in Guatemala about 40.5 of the population.

The Mayan calendar has same principle as the Gregorian.

Mayan pyramids and large temples were built elegantly using stone tools.

Modern Mayan languages descend from Proto Mayan, a language thought to have been spoken at least 5,000 years ago it has been partially reconstructed using the comparative method.

The last place I visited was the Mayan ruins of Copan, Honduras.

He's the author of seven books, six of them on Mayan ceramics.

Prevention and elimination of child labour in the Mayan villages of Toledo, Belize

This programme targets two rural Mayan villages in the district of Toledo, Belize.

Yes indeed, as the Mayan poem goes, all these things happened among us.

And Mayan inscriptions proclaim that he was deeply in love with his wife.

This is an old Mayan funeral chant that he got from his grandfather.

(g) The promotion of education, local communication capabilities, natural preservation and the controlled development of cultural and ecological tourism, in particular the preservation of the Mayan heritage and the development of communities of Mayan origin

Most recently, the Mayan culture in Central America began carving their cartouches in 300 A.D.

Mayan and Aztec legends are same as the Greek and Hebrew and have terrible catastrophes.

Several indigenous cultures of the Americas had also developed their own writing systems, the best known being the Mayan.

A similar emergency import ban was imposed in 1991 on Mayan artefacts originating in the Peten region of Guatemala.

Now, I know absolutely nothing about Mayan ceramics, but I wanted to be as ingratiating as possible so I said,

UNESCO provides support for a number of initiatives such as the Mayan bilingual and intercultural education project for primary schools in Guatemala.

If you've heard about the Mayan 2012 apocalypse, you're going to hear about Apophis, because you're keyed in to all the doomsday networks anyway.

If you've heard about the Mayan 2012 apocalypse, you're going to hear about Apophis, because you're keyed in to all the doomsday networks anyway.

Now, I know absolutely nothing about Mayan ceramics, but I wanted to be as ingratiating as possible so I said, But Dr. Robicsek, this is absolutely dazzling.

Production in Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Mayan, Chinantec and Mazatec was overseen by the United Nations Information Centre in Mexico, and undertaken by the Frente Independiente de Pueblos Indios.

And he opened the door and we walked into a windowless 20 by 20 foot room with shelves from floor to ceiling, and crammed on every shelf his collection of Mayan ceramics.

It has the second highest indigenous population in Latin America (over 40 per cent), made up mostly of 22 ethnic groups of Mayan origin and, to a lesser extent, of Xinca and Garífuna populations.

During the first ten years, the victims of the state sponsored terror were primarily students, workers, professionals, and opposition figures, but in the last years they were thousands of mostly rural Mayan farmers and non combatants.

He's also a prodigious art collector, beginning as an intern in Budapest by collecting 16th and 17th century Dutch art and Hungarian painting, and when he came to this country moving on to Spanish colonial art, Russian icons and finally Mayan ceramics.

Perhaps the most difficult challenge for MINUGUA was to operate in the complex multi ethnic, multicultural and multilingual environment of Guatemala, with its deeply entrenched racism and abandonment of the nearly two dozen Mayan, Xinca and Garifuna indigenous communities that comprise at least half the population.

In addition, June 2002 saw the holding of the Fourth Round Table of Palenque on the subject of the Funerary Culture of Mayan Society, an event that also marked the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of Pakal's tomb. The Third Round Table of Monte Albán was held in June 2002 on the general theme of political structures in ancient Oaxaca and provided many worthwhile contributions towards an understanding of the social behaviour patterns of that time.