An authoritative survey of Angkor and the Khmer civilization that incorporates revelations from new discoveries that are completely rewriting history.
Michaela Coel Boeken
Michael D. Coe was een Amerikaanse archeoloog en antropoloog, bekend om zijn uitgebreide onderzoek naar de Maya-beschaving. Zijn wetenschappelijke bijdragen hebben ons begrip van deze oude cultuur aanzienlijk vergroot. Coe's werk verdiepte zich in hun complexe sociale structuren, hun ingewikkelde hiëroglyfische schrift en hun diepe kosmologische overtuigingen. Hij bracht de wereld van de Maya's tot leven voor een breder publiek door zijn boeiende en gezaghebbende geschriften.
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Breaking the Maya Code
- 304bladzijden
- 11 uur lezen
Presents the inside story of one of the major intellectual breakthroughs of our time - the great decipherment of an ancient Maya script revised with the advanced developments. This title features 113 illustrations that provide details about the people and texts that have enabled us to read the Maya script.
Chewing Gum Dreams
- 64bladzijden
- 3 uur lezen
First Published in Great Britan by Oberon Books 2013.
The Maya
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- 12 uur lezen
Featuring stucco sculptures at El Zotz and Holmul, this book includes the discovery of an underwater cavern of the earliest known occupant of the region, the Hoyo Negro girl, and evidence for the first architecture at Ceibal.
Mexico
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- 9 uur lezen
An introduction to the regions ancient civilizations. It explores how several spectacular new discoveries have thrown more light on the Olmec culture, Mexicos earliest civilization.
While Europe was buried in the Dark Ages, the Maya were producing astonishing sculpture, stelae and wall murals, as well as building magnificent temples, tombs and ball courts. This book pairs the leading Maya scholar and world's finest photographers of ancient sites to trace the rise and fall of Mayan civilization through its great royal cities.