"I won't lose the Maya culture nor language, " he tells us through a translator.

BBC: Mexico seeks 'end of world' Maya tourism boost

The Lodge at Chaa Creek has a Maya Winter Solstice Tour, and the week-long Belize Maya Heartland 2012 tour is offering an intense immersion in Maya culture.

BBC: Maya festivals for the end of time

Most of the turkey bones were found at the Maya culture's Jaguar Paw Temple, a 30-foot (9-meter)-high platform "topped by triadic architecture and decorated with sculptured stucco masks, " the researchers write.

MSN: The Maya may have sacrificed earliest domestic turkeys

The Maya used their mathematical knowledge along with celestial observations to finesse a calendar created by the Olmec which is a culture from the Mexican Gulf Coast and to create monuments to observe and commemorate movements of the moon, the sun, and Venus.

UNESCO: Culture