Russian icons and finally Mayan ceramics.

It was he who broke the Mayan codex, enabling scholars to relate the pictographs on Mayan ceramics to the hieroglyphs of the Mayan script.

The Maya had an intense musical practice, as is documented by iconography.

And Mayan inscriptions proclaim that he was deeply in love with his wife.

The last place I visited was the Mayan ruins of Copan, Honduras.

He's the author of seven books, six of them on Mayan ceramics.

Maya influence can be detected from Honduras, Guatemala, Northern El Salvador and to as far as central Mexico, more than from the Maya area.

Prevention and elimination of child labour in the Mayan villages of Toledo, Belize

The Mayans started speaking to us in the 20th century, but the Indus civilization remains silent.

Mayan pyramids and large temples were built elegantly using stone tools.

This lasted until around 900 AD, when the Classic Maya civilization collapsed.

This happens to be the cloud of points for Tikal.

Yes indeed, as the Mayan poem goes, all these things happened among us.

If you look at street art and graffiti, you find a lot of American and European influence.

Most recently, the Mayan culture in Central America began carving their cartouches in 300 A.D.

It was built by the grandest Sun King, of the grandest city state, of the grandest civilization of the Americas, the Mayas.

There are private museums, such as the Ixchel, which focuses on textiles, and the Popol Vuh, which focuses on Maya archaeology.

Now, I know absolutely nothing about Mayan ceramics, but I wanted to be as ingratiating as possible so I said,

Several indigenous cultures of the Americas had also developed their own writing systems, the best known being the Mayan.

Reference also was made to the situations affecting the Maya in Mexico, the Shoshone in the United States of America and the Gwich'in in Alaska.

Along with Mayans other identified tribal peoples within these communities are creole (African) and mestizo.

Like the Maya, the people of Honduras are deeply peace loving, and their democratic calling has evolved unblemished.

The historic agreement signed in 2000 by the Maya community and the Government of Belize, whereby the Government recognized that the Maya people had rights to lands and resources in southern Belize, based on their longstanding use and occupancy, was an indication of the commitment of CARICOM States in that regard.

Since its inception, the Maya script was in use up to the arrival of the Europeans, peaking during the Maya Classical Period (c. 200 to 900).

The Committee shall be composed of representatives of each of the sectors which participated in the Oslo process, together with representatives of the Maya people.

Other events a compact disc entitled Manual of human rights by Dr. Alfredo Islas Colín (2001) and Meeting between the Federal Judiciary and the traditional Maya Judiciary (2002).

Now, I know absolutely nothing about Mayan ceramics, but I wanted to be as ingratiating as possible so I said, But Dr. Robicsek, this is absolutely dazzling.

UNESCO provides support for a number of initiatives such as the Mayan bilingual and intercultural education project for primary schools in Guatemala.

3. The rights of the various indigenous communities, primarily Mayas, should be taken into account, especially respect for, and encouragement of, their way of life, cultural identity, customs, traditions and social organization.

Many of the television shows or 'historical' movies showing Mayans or Aztecs not only include this aspect but make it the central focus of the story. Some Mexicans have their doubts regarding historical records. Like this man , who in the following interview explains why he believes that the stories of large scale human sacrifices were simply a way in which uncultured conquerors could justify the killing of Mesoamericans.

And he opened the door and we walked into a windowless 20 by 20 foot room with shelves from floor to ceiling, and crammed on every shelf his collection of Mayan ceramics.

7.6 of the population is other Mayan , 0.4 is indigenous non Mayan, making the indigenous community in Guatemala about 40.5 of the population.

She drew the attention of the Special Rapporteur to paragraph 57 of his report (A 59 258), which including the following Indigenous people (around 12 million Maya, Xinca and Garífuna) .

Today he focuses on the mysteries of the Mayans in his book El fin de los dias (The end of our time) , which is available for purchase online in an electronic format.

During the first ten years, the victims of the state sponsored terror were primarily students, workers, professionals, and opposition figures, but in the last years they were thousands of mostly rural Mayan farmers and non combatants.

Culture Guatemala City is home to many of the nation's libraries and museums, including the National Archives, the National Library, and the Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, which has an extensive collection of Maya artifacts.

Honduras has emerged from the remarkable culture of the Mayas, who, in centuries past, invented the zero and developed mathematics, cultivated architecture, predicted eclipses, and produced an extraordinarily accurate calendar.

For example, the classic lowland Maya of the Yucatan began to collapse in the early 800s literally a few decades after the Maya were building their biggest monuments, and Maya population was greatest.

It has the second highest indigenous population in Latin America (over 40 per cent), made up mostly of 22 ethnic groups of Mayan origin and, to a lesser extent, of Xinca and Garífuna populations.

In the rural areas meals may be more simplified than in the cities the Maya use recado, corn or maize for most of their meals, and the Garifuna are fond of seafood, cassava (particularly made into cassava bread or Ereba) and vegetables.

He's also a prodigious art collector, beginning as an intern in Budapest by collecting 16th and 17th century Dutch art and Hungarian painting, and when he came to this country moving on to Spanish colonial art, Russian icons and finally Mayan ceramics.

Currently the Government, in consultation with the leaders of the Maya community, was implementing its National Poverty Elimination Strategy and Action Plan, and as a result had built schools, provided access to new technologies and preserved the environment while respecting and preserving the indigenous communities' cultural values.

During this period he also visited Paris, took advantage of the timed sketching classes at the Académie Colarossi, and viewed, in the Trocadero, a plaster cast of a Toltec Maya sculptural form, the Chac Mool, previously seen in book illustrations.

Perhaps the most difficult challenge for MINUGUA was to operate in the complex multi ethnic, multicultural and multilingual environment of Guatemala, with its deeply entrenched racism and abandonment of the nearly two dozen Mayan, Xinca and Garifuna indigenous communities that comprise at least half the population.