Includes: news, current research, publications, links, and contact information.

Introductory site to Maya culture and the major Mayan archaeological sites.

An interdisciplinary research initiative into the prehistory and ecology of the Belize River Valley. Offers photographs of monuments, maps, field reports, publications, and contact details.

Project by Walter R. T. Witschey and Clifford T. Brown, to study settlement patterns: includes research papers and maps.

Explore the ancient ruins of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula built by the Mayan Civilization.

Documents current investigations at the largest archaeological site known in the country.

Formed by young scholars searching for academic contacts. Links professionals, students and amateurs for conferences, information exchange, and workshops. Links, bibliography, publications, collection inventories, news, and conference information.

Features a photo gallery of Jeffrey Jay Foxx, ethnographic photographer. Includes a biography, a list of exhibitions and books, and related links.

From New Scientist, Mayan civilization collapsed following a series of intense droughts, suggests the most detailed climatic study to date.

Information from Chichen Itza, Uxmal, and Dzibilchaltun. Includes location, photos, history, and services.

Facts and artifacts relative to Mayan archaeology, prehispanic pyramid architecture, Latin America, Mesoamerica, featuring Olmec jade, stelae and sculpture at Copan, and showing how pre-Columbian art can be reproduced aided by new digital technology.

Virtual exhibition on Maya architecture with information, photos, plans, models and more.

Two photo collections of art from the classic period (400-800 CE), one of vases and the other of stellae at Copan, Honduras.

Art featuring designs from the Tzolkin, the ritual calendar of the Maya.

Ken Goehring gives an illustrated history and tour of Mayan sites in chronological order. Prepared for the College of the Siskiyous.

Photographs and descriptions by Phil Konstantin. Includes Chichen Itza, Kabah, Uxmal, Labna, Xlapak, Sayil, Palenque, Xpujil, Becan and Museo de la Cultura Maya.

Offers monthly programs and lectures: includes newsletter, calendar of events, and links.

From the Miami Herald, more than two dozen artifacts said to be valuable Mayan pieces buried with the dead are the focus of a legal dispute 1,000 years later

Glenn Welker describes the locations and development of Maya civilization. Michael Lemonick gives a history of the related archeological research.

Photographs, rubbings, and illustrations, featuring rubbings of stelae from 1970-71 in Guatemala; views of monuments published in 1844 by Catherwood.

Photos by John C. Mureiko.

Discussion of various acoustical oddities of the Great Ballcourt and the Castillo at Chichen Itza and the pyramids at Palenque.

Bulletin board featuring an archive of contributed tourist photographs.

Precolumbian portfolio features a collection of artifacts and sites from the ancient Americas, and a database archive of rollout and still photographs of vases, plates, and bowls. Find hints and helps to search the database.

From ScienceDaily, University of Cincinnati professors found evidence of a major environmental transformation that helps to explain a puzzle that has stumped Maya scholars for decades.

Online version of Mundo Maya Magazine, specializing in the Maya culture. Available in English and Spanish. Detailed articles on archeological topics.

The ruins of a Maya city have been discovered near a tributary of the Rio San Pedro in northern Guatemala.

Provides details of research conducted in Chunchucmil, located in the northwest corner of the Yucatan Peninsula. Includes an overview of the project, its history, fieldwork opportunities, a bibliography, and contact details.

Mayan hieroglyphic writing, language, and calendar; includes syllabary and Yucatec sound files.

The project currently focuses on performance among the ancient Maya, with comparisons to other cultures and time periods increasingly included.

Ongoing archaeological dig at a large, yet little-known, site in El Salvador.

Photos from Uxmal, Labna, Sayil, Chacmultun, Becan, Xpujil, Tikal, Xunantunich, Lamanai, Kohunlich, Chicanna, Edzna, and Dzibilnocac.

Photographs by a traveler of this site notable for the tallest pyramid in the Yucatán.

Using a community centered perspective to examine how rural Maya affected and were affected by political changes.

Researching caves with ritual activity in southwestern Peten and northern Alta Verapaz. Photos, maps, reports. (English and Spanish)

Aimed at understanding the use of caves by the prehistoric Maya. Photographs and information on the caves.

Provides maps, movies, images, reports and articles presenting the urban site of Yaxuná, Mexico.

Scientific research of the ruins of an ancient Maya city and its culture in the Yucatan region. Includes various multimedia presentations.

Zacpeten, an archaeological site in Peten, Guatemala, was heavily occupied during the Middle Preclassic, Terminal Classic, and Late Postclassic periods.