But about the Mayans: The hidden temple bedroom is the most playful (if not most spacious) feature.
These particular Cenotes are now protected by the Mayans, who still believe they are apertures to the underworld.
FORBES: The Brooklyn-Grown Archeological Shop Inspired by Sacred Mayan Sinkholes
Rigoberta Menchu draws attention to the plight of the Mayans by travelling the world in her native dress.
Ancient Mayans believed their sun god turned into a jaguar at dusk, and the constellations were his spots.
The blue pigment Mayans used to paint temple walls 1, 400 years ago was made of particles only about 50 nanometers across.
In fact, try this as you plan 2013 (assuming the Mayans were wrong).
Mayans chewed on the sap of the sapodilla tree and called it chicle.
And a lot of the predictions about the end of world are as authentic as those offered by the Mayans.
FORBES: Obama, Boehner, Reid Pass Budget Blame While Taxpayers Wonder: Who's On First?
Whichever ancient Mayans devised this long, long con are probably laughing at us from their perch in Mayan heaven right now.
FORBES: 'Halo 4' Won't Make Your Kids Violent: Why Parents Should Play Video Games With Their Kids
The Incas and Mayans in the distant past created stone cultures with edifices, mammoth monuments, and pyramids, and they remain until now.
By the time most of you have read this we will have realized that the Mayans were incorrect, and life goes on.
Unless the ancient Mayans were right and the world will truly come to an end today, we must continue to have hope.
For those less optimistic than the Mayans, an "official" website in the United States has collected links to all the doomsday articles and videos Internet users can consume.
But not even modern-day Mayans bought into the coming apocalypse.
The ancient civilization of Mayans lived in Mesoamerica since 2, 600 BC and had an extremely complicated and accurate method of keeping track of time based on three separate calendars.
Modern-day Mayans say the end of the calendar phase doesn't mean the end of the world -- just the end of an era, and the start of a new one.
The end of the world, according to the Mayans.
FORBES: U.S. Housing Market Still On Life Support; Prices At 2003 Levels
Of course, the Irish predict the end of the world every time it rains and their roots in mysticism, shape shifting, and consulting oracles make the Mayans seem like babes in the woods.
Perhaps the Mayans were onto something with 2013?
FORBES: Urgent Warning On New Bird Flu H7N9: Could Pose Global Threat
Civilians - the vast majority of them indigenous Mayans - were caught in the crossfire, and an estimated 200, 000 died before a truce was reached in 1996, making the conflict one of Latin America's most violent wars.
应用推荐