Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya
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This book is chock full of site plans and photos, artifacts and loads of maps.
This is a highly informative work considering that most of Maya history comes from the Glyphs/writing left on buildings and monuments.
This book is a very good quick reference guide for those who do not want to wade through huge blocks of history text to get to the information you need. The volume is divided into sections separating the Maya into their city states and showing their impact on the world around them (as well as the impact on them from outsiders).
The Maya are a precise and warlike people who, it seems, overstretched their natural resources which then lead to their city states to eventual ruin and abandonment.
And now the Maya people today (who have a strong oral tradition) are being taught to read the writing of their ancestors by the Archaeologists who study the ancient Maya.
Writing and language are so much a part of a person’s cultural identity, that when you lose your connection with it, you lose a part of yourself.
-Hayley
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