I watched this show on The History Channel about Mayans last night.
The culture was so a head of its time and then the Spanish came in and wiped them out in the name of a some bearded white guy.
Brilliant.
At any rate some of the information was really fascinating such as the Mayan calendar, their concepts on time, astrology, architecture, etc.
Read up here:
Mayan Culture Wiki Page
Yeah, I watched a similar show on PBS. Amazing stuff! (Except for the human sacrifice thing. Ugh.)
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Many years ago Doug and I had a chance to visit some Mayan ruins at Tulum. I'm glad we had that opportunity.