A PLACE FOUND BELIEVED THAT IT IS THE WAY AFTER LIFE

The Mayan developed a complex written language that uses glyphs, which can be seen on temple walls and stelae, stone columns, at many sites. Scholars continue to grapple with translation of many of the panels, but even first-time visitors can spot glyphs representing numbers, a dot symbolizes one, a bar stands for five and a shell shape is zero. Three would be written with three dots, seven with two dots over a bar.


A group of archaeologists in Mexico discovered an ancient canal system. They believed that under the tomb of a Mayan ruler a canal found said that is it the entrance to the underworld.


Palenque is known for its expressive carvings of warriors, priests and kings with elongated, curving features. Uxmal with its so-called Puuc Mayan design is characterized by intricate, lattice-like stonework.

Pakal is in the Temple of Inscription in the seventh century tomb of the Mayan ruler. Mayan concluded that this canal is the way afterlife.