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Palenque: Eternal City of the Maya by David Stuart Publisher Comments Sunday, June 15, 1952. Having spent four years clearing a secret passage inside Palenque's Temple of the Inscriptions, Mexican archaeologist Alberto Ruz gazed into a vaulted chamber. There, beneath a gigantic carved stone block, he would make a... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover 
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From the Mouth of the Dark Cave: Commemorative Sculpture of the Late Classic Maya by Karen Bassie Sweet Book News Annotation Explores the idea that caves formed by the erosive action of underground rivers in the southern lowlands of the Maya region played a major role in the ideology and world view of the Classic Maya. Bassie-Sweet shows how the Mayas' most sacred rituals... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Stone of Kings: In Search of the Lost Jade of the Maya by Gerard Helferich Publisher Comments Long prized as one of the most precious substances on earth, jade has been used to adorn kings, cure disease, and perform sacred rituals, including human sacrifice. For millennia, it played a crucial role in the culture of the Maya and other ancient... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock Publisher Comments Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice by Dennis Tedlock Publisher Comments Here is one of the most important surviving works of pre-Columbian civilization, Rabinal Achi, a Mayan drama set a century before the arrival of the Spanish, produced by the translator of the best selling Popol Vuh. The first direct translation into... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs by Linda Schele and Peter Mathews Publisher Comments This unique and extraordinary guide to seven major sites of Maya civilization highlights the pioneering work of two great scholars of ancient America. For readers at every level -- from the casual tourist to the serious student -- The Code of Kings... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rise & Fall of the Maya Civilization by J. Eric and S. Thompson Publisher Comments Ever since the discovery of the magnificent ruins of the Maya cities in the Central American jungles, men have speculated about this stone-age people, who without metal tools, without beasts of burden, without even a knowledge of the wheel, developed... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ancient Maya by Robert J Sharer Publisher Comments The rich findings of recent exploration and research are incorporated in this completely revised and greatly expanded edition of the standard work on the New World's most brilliant native civilization - that of the Maya people of northern Central America... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens (2ND 08 Edition) by Simon Martin Publisher Comments Behind the ancient cities of the Maya and their abandoned artworks lie the turbulent stories of their ruling dynasties. One of the world's greatest and most powerful civilizations, the Maya experienced constant conflict in a landscape divided among... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse by David Webster Publisher Comments Drawing upon recent archeological research and hieroglyphic decipherments, a professor of anthropology explores the mysterious disappearance of the Maya. 90 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture by Andrea Stone Publisher Comments The art of the ancient Maya may be considered their most singular cultural achievement. Yet despite a surge of popular interest in these remarkable people, few are fully aware of the richness of their artistic legacy, unique in all of pre-Columbian... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Maya Monuments by Nigel Hughes Publisher Comments Maya Monuments is a record of 40 representative Maya buildings and sculpted monoliths, selected by the author to show the stylistic range of the Classic and Post-Classic periods of that remarkable and accomplished civilization. The book contains 41... (read more) List Price $49.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies) by Susan Milbrath Publisher Comments Susan Milbrath is Curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History and Affiliate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida.... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ancient Maya of the Belize Valley: Half a Century of Archaeological Research (Maya Studies) by James F Garber Publisher Comments An admirable contribution to the growing literature on Maya settlement research initiated by Gordon Willey in the Belize Valley in the 1950s.--Shirley B. Mock, University of Texas, San Antonio Over half a century ago, the late Gordon Willey began his... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction by Geoffrey E Braswell Publisher Comments I can say unequivocally that this volume will become a basic and heavily used reference and source of ideas. . . . Geoff Braswell is to be commended for bringing together so solid, comprehensive, pertinent, and balanced a compilation of research and... (read more) Your price: $55.00 Used - Hardcover
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Civilization of the American Indian #99: Maya History and Religion by J Eric S Thompson Publisher Comments Believing that Maya studies today are "suffering from imbalance," J. Eric S. Thompson here approaches Maya history and religion from the standpoint of ethno-history. Present-day archaeologists often tend to restrict their curiosity to their excavations... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by Linda Schele Publisher Comments This is an account of Maya history based on the deciphering of hieroglyphic inscriptions. Because the epigraphic record is too limited to allow a comprehensive reconstruction of Maya history, Schele and Freidel have arranged their story by sites... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice by Dennis Tedlock Publisher Comments The first direct translation into English from Quiche Maya, based on the original text, 'Rabinal Achi' is the story of city-states, war, and nobility, of diplomacy, mysticism, and psychic journeys.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $13.88 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ancient Maya Commoners by Jon C Lohse Publisher Comments Much of what we currently know about the ancient Maya concerns the activities of the elites who ruled the societies and left records of their deeds carved on the monumental buildings and sculptures that remain as silent testimony to their power and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars by Susan Milbrath Publisher Comments OBSERVATIONS OF THE SUN, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Google eBooks - Electronic
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