The Maya are an indigenous people of Mexico and Central America who have continuously inhabited the lands comprising modern-day Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. https://www.worldhistory.org/Maya_Civilization/ #History #Chacchoben #ChacoCanyon #ChichenItza

Although John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood are consistently credited with the `discovery' of the Maya Civilization, there were many who preceded them who sparked their interest in making their famous travels through Mesoamerica. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/418/early-explorers-of-the-maya-civilization-from-agui/ #History #Chacchoben #ChichenItza #MayaCivilization

Maya religious beliefs are formed on the notion that virtually everything in the world contains k'uh, or sacredness. https://www.worldhistory.org/Maya_Religion/ #History #Chacchoben #ChilamBalam #Copan

The Mayan religious text, the Popol Vuh (known by many names, among them, The Light That Came From Beside The Sea) is the Quiche Maya story of creation translated into Spanish in the early 18th century CE by the missionary Francisco Ximenez from much older tales. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/414/maya-religion-the-light-that-came-from-beside-the/ #History #Burial #Chacchoben #ChichenItza

Chaccoben (pronounced chac-CHO-bin) is a Maya site dated to c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Chacchoben/ #History #Chacchoben #MayaArchitecture #MayaCivilization