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It always seems a shame to us that some of the questions we receive from pupils during our in-school team visits/workshops on the Maya aren’t shared with wider audiences, and given more ‘polished’ and considered answers. So... our plan is to publish the best questions, together with brief but expert answers. We hope that, as the service develops, schools - and everyone - will find this a unique resource - authoritative, balanced, interactive and genuinely accessible.
Winter 2024: we are privileged to have an expanding team of - over 110! - world-class and distinguished scholars on our Panel. Honorary President Professor Miguel León-Portilla (RIP) received in 2009 from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) its greatest distinction, the Eagle Warrior Award, a sculpture that represents a Mexica fighter, presented to academics and researchers that have made important contributions to Mexican history.
you didn’t believe in any gods?
wear headdresses?
ancient Maya city?
wouldn’t they start to smell?
all linked to different gods?
of maize are there?
Pakal’s jade mask still in prison?
a different god every day?
at the clouds work?!
as an Aztec or a Maya [child]?
skull masks worn on the back have been?
carve their jade masks?
were sacred, apart from maize?
paint their bodies so much?
the earth is a turtle?
to build their temples?
were you ever allowed chocolate?
move between levels or heavens?
of the Maya maize god mean?
in an Aztec house (2)?
have been worn as jewellery?
Maya rulers?
to build Chichen Itza?
against the Maya?
before the Conquest?
instead of after the Mexica/Aztecs?
have no windows? (2)
from other birds [other than quetzals]?
have no windows?
from the Maya?