Very nice moody artwork: …was labelled "BIXX A BEEL MAALOB KIIN" but aside from the "Ki'in" which means "sun," not sure about the rest. Awesome carving though.
Super interesting youtube video, from the Penn Museum. Great Beasts of Legend: Monsters of the Mayan Cosmos, lecture by Simon Martin.
Second video, also from Penn Museum. Great Myths and Legends: Hero Twins of the Americas. Megan Kassabaum and Simon Martin.
Maya Dynasty and Kingship in the Temple of the Night Sun, video talks a lot about the city of El Zotz right next to the larger, well known city of Tikal. Also talks a lot about the looting that has happened to so many ancient Mayan sites. Prof Stephen Houston.
Oh dang! Found another AMAZING video. This one is a lecture by William Saturno, the guy who has a crazy adventure at the start of this video. This is the guy who found this: Spoiler: San Bartolo Murals at San Bartolo!!!! Wow!
A Tale of Two City States. Lecture by Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle, archaeologist of Copan. Spoiler: Spoiler Copan is dramatically defeated by their smaller rival, Quirigua.
Today I booted my work PC and the background of the log-in screen was Chichen Itza, a picture from this perspective, just without people:
Some more sketches: Yaxchilan Lintel 37, lots of glyphs: Queen from El Peru, saw this one in the Cleveland Art Museum:
Found this artwork, from "tello obelisk," I believe from South America. Not Mayan, but very interesting style (and a huge amount of symbollism and detail).
A few more cool Castelobruxo pieces of art that are too good to pass up. All by Johanna Rupprecht. Spoiler: wizarding school Interesting glyphs on the back left wall (link) Also, link to my Castelobuxo lore ideas thread.