Links to our favorite Maya websites

FOR KIDS

Ballgame: a kid-friendly, interactive site about the Mesoamerican ballgame.

Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya - for kids: excellent pdf brochure on the Maya

Maya Kids: broad easily digestible Maya site for kids

GENERAL MAYA RESOURCE SITES

Famsi: the definitive Maya resource - includes glyph dictionaries, a guide to writing glyphs, the fabulous Linda Schele drawings, and down-loadable versions of the Maya codices.

Mesoweb: articles, photographs and information on the Maya.

Lesson Plan Links: links to the best free Maya lesson plans on the web.

Collapse, why do civilizations fall? a look at the collapse of the Maya civilization.

NASA Earth Observatory: the Maya and the environment

MAYA CALENDAR

Calendar Tools: simple tool to convert our dates to the Maya Calendar.

The Maya Calendar: comprehensive look at the Maya calendar includes conversion tools

Maya 3D calendar: fabulous Maya calendar app for the iPad or iPhone

MAYA LANGUAGE & GLYPHS

Cracking the Maya Code: clips of PBS NOVA’s excellent film about deciphering the Maya glyphs.

Omniglot: overview of Maya glyph writing with Maya syllabary and links to a range of Maya sites.

Ancient Scripts: Writing systems in the ancient world

2012

2012 - Frequently Asked Questions: Professor Mark Van Stone of Southwestern University provides insightful answers.

A Brief History of the Apocalypse: 2012 is just another point in a line of doomsday hysteria.

Debunking Doomsday 2012: a realistic look at the 2012 issues.

What Will Not Happen in 2012: food for thought from David Stuart, Professor of Mesoamerican Art and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin 

2012 - Skeptics vs Believers: an easily digestible look at both sides of the controversy

MAYA ART

Frederick Catherwood’s house: online portfolio of Catherwood’s superb illustrations

Images of the Maya: traditional woven textiles from the highlands of Chiapas.

Maya Art Pages: 130 photographs of Maya vase painting and a photographic journey of Copan

MesoAmerican Art: lush and evocative photographs of Maya sites and people.

Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya: from the exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

MAYA SITES

Maya Ruins: photographs from a wide range of Maya sites - with site maps.

The Temples of Palenque

Chichén Itza

Copán Maya Foundation

Copán Museum Honduras

Caracol Archeological Project

Tikal National Park

OTHER INTERESTING LINKS

Plague Rats: web site of Max Murphy’s favorite band - The Plague Rats.

America writes for kids:  website of authors who write kid’s books

Salva Balam: Guatemalan campaign to save the jaguar from extinction and maintain one of its last remaining habitats - the Maya Jungle. (site is in Spanish)