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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Written on the Walls
A great piece in the New York Times today, including some cool pictures and multimedia extras.
On Ancient Walls, a New Maya Epoch
On the sacred walls and inside the dark passageways of ancient ruins in Guatemala, archaeologists are making discoveries that open expanded vistas of the vibrant Maya civilization in its formative period, a time reaching back more than 1,000 years before its celebrated Classic epoch.
The intriguing finds, including art masterpieces and the earliest known Maya writing, are overturning old ideas of the Preclassic period. It was not a kind of dark age, as once thought, of a culture that emerged and bloomed in Classic times, at places like the spectacular royal ruin at Palenque beginning about A.D. 250 and extending to its mysterious collapse around 900.
Full NYT story here.
Posted by Will at May 16, 2006 05:46 PM in Maya Archaeology