Empire Builder Maya Backgrounder
The best time to visit Guatemala is in the winter (December – March) when the weather is relatively dry and cool, avoiding the hot, sticky rainy season during the summer.
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Mapping the Mayans
Many historical artists were very fanciful in their depictions of ancient buildings, but Catherwood was famously accurate, using a so-called ‘Camera Lucida’ to capture the exact details of the buildings and guide his drawings.
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Lost Ruins of the Maya
Scientists in the PACUNAM project responsible for these recent discoveries believe that the ancient Maya population may have been as much as 10 times larger than experts previously imagined.
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Looting the Maya
It’s a useful reminder of the destruction still caused by looting of Maya archaeological sites in other, even more remote parts of the Guatemalan rainforest.
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The Looting of Mayan Ruins in Uaxactun
Following the exit of Wrigleys chewing gum from their forests, villagers of Uaxactun and elsewhere had to turn to other sources of income between the 1960s and 1980s.
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