Mexico Trip

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  The Doomsday Prophecy

  Despite all the speculation, urgent discussion, and global hullabaloo around the so-called “Maya doomsday prophecy,” there is only one actual written record of ...

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  Real Tacos

  I encountered my favorite tacos in Yucatán, where they are stuffed with the delectable cochínita pibil: slow-roasted pork marinated in sour orange and topped with onion and ...

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  Calakmul: Ruin With a View

  My desire for Maya “cosmovision” took me deep into the jungle, to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Calakmul, an ancient Maya city that spanned more than a millennium of civilization....

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  Traveling to the End of the World

  This is why I have come to Mexico: to find out the truth. In lieu of time travel, real travel can take us back into the past and help us understand a lost world. Travel teaches us ...

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  Izamal: Sacred City

  In the ochre light of dusk, Izamal shines like no other place on Earth. For me, here was the real Mexico I had longed to see: Maya gods sleeping beneath Spanish churches ...

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  Underworld

  For the ancient Maya, Xibalba (chee-bal-ba) was the underworld, which in their language translates literally as “place of fear." I was trying very hard not to be afraid as I ...

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  Palenque: New Age

  Palenque’s most well-known ruin is so gigantic, I felt an immediate reverence for the culture and people that were able to construct such a grand piece of architecture. ...

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  Chichén Itzá: Venus Cycle

  As if someone had flipped a switch, the planet Venus appeared directly above the Caracol. The intense “evening star” shone so brightly and right above it was Jupiter, a lesser light but ...

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  Comalcalco: Cosmovision

  Traveling to Comalcalco in person did not reveal the revelatory brick that I was searching for, but it granted me an afternoon among some of the most unique Maya ruins in ...

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  Izapa: A Point of View

  Thus I began my investigation of the Maya calendar by traveling back to the ancient site of Izapa—a place “where time began” (according to Dartmouth geographer ...