What You Probably Don’t Know About the Ancient Mayans

Published on January 18, 2018
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3 Calenders

Not only were conspiracy theorists wrong about the Mayan calendar, they were also misinformed. The Mayas had three different calendars and one even resembled the Gregorian calendar with 365 days.

3 Calendars

3 Calendars

The Ancient Mayans had an advanced writing system.

We typically don’t think of many ancient cultures as having advanced language or writing but the Mayans bucked both of those trends. The ancient Mayan civilization in fact had one of the most complex and advanced writing system in the world at the time. They would write on anything that they could find, including on their own buildings. Sadly much of this writing went the way of extinction during the time of the Spanish invasion. Still, what remained has ended up getting translated by scholars over the years in order to give us a more complete picture of the people.

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The Ancient Mayans had an advanced writing system

The Ancient Mayans had an advanced writing system