Recent studies of ancient Maya water management have found that the urban architecture of some cities was used to divert rainfall runoff into gravity-fed systems of interconnected reservoirs.

最近对古玛雅水资源管理的研究发现，一些城市的城市建筑被用来分流降雨径流到相互连接的水库的重力补给系统中。

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The Maya civilization is impressive for a number of reasons - a fully developed writing system, amazing architecture, and a complex political system. But life expectancy was low.

玛雅文明有几点让人印象深刻-达的书写系统，惊人的建筑成就和复杂的社会体系。但是生活指数不高。

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The Maya were noted as well for elaborate and highly decorated ceremonial architecture, including temple-pyramids, palaces and observatories, all built without metal tools.

玛雅人同样为人称道的是结构复杂和装饰精美的仪式用建筑，包括金字塔神庙、宫殿和观象台，它们都是在没有借助金属工具的情况下建成的。

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Maya Lin has said that her work exists on the boundaries -- somewhere between science and art, art and architecture, public and private,east and west.

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Triadic architecture, developed by the Maya, involved a main structure with two inward-facing buildings on either side.

MSN: The Maya may have sacrificed earliest domestic turkeys