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Middle American Research Institute (MARI) of Tulane University
http://www.tulane.edu/~mari/
This site includes lists of MARI publications and order information. Eventually the site will contain information on the many collections related to Mesoamerica at the institute.

Cities of the Ancient Mayas
http://www.isourcecom.com/maya/

GB Online's Mesoamerica
http://pages.prodigy.com/GBonline/mesowelc.html

Precolumbian Graphic Arts Web Site
http://members.aol.com/hasawchan/precolart.html
John Montgomery has put together what promises to become the major graphics site for the Usumacinta sites. He has also included a few materials from other Mayan sites and a few non-Mayan sites.

Hellmuth's Maya page
http://www.maya-archaeology.org/
This page is graphics-oriented and contains many QuickTime movies.

Mayan Chronology
http://www.arts-history.mx/cronos/maya.html

Lords of the Earth: Maya/Aztec/Inca Exchange
http://www.mayalords.org/
based on the assumption that the Americas were part of a broader world from early times

NativeWeb - an Internet Community
http://www.nativeweb.org/
This site is a collective project of many people to provide a cyber-community for Earth's indigenous peoples. The indexed and searchable database contains hundreds of links concerning Native, Aboriginal, and Indigenous internet resources on all seven continents.

Mundo Maya
http://www.ccu.umich.mx/mmaya/
in Spanish, Información sobre el Mundo Maya: turismo, história, sítios arquelógicos, ciudades coloniales

Maya Sites - Science Museum of Minnesota
http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/ma/sites.html
The Maya site list allows you to travel to each site in Maya Adventure, or access specific information from each site. The sites are listed in alphabetical order.

Espadana Press
http://www.west.net/~rperry/
regional Guides to Colonial Mexico and the Ruta Maya

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Science and Writing

Maya Astronomy
http://www.michielb.nl/maya/astro.html

Astronomy Mailing List Archive: Mayan Astronomy
http://lalaland.cl.msu.edu/~vanhoose/astro/0101.html

The Maya Calendar
http://hermetic.nofadz.com/cal_stud/maya/cont.htm

Maya Calendrics
http://hermetic.nofadz.com/cal_sw/maya/mgc.htm

Software in English and German with documentation in English at
http://hermetic.nofadz.com/cal_sw/maya/chap4.htm

INTI Altamerikanische Kalender Home
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/8449/

Mayan and Aztec Calendrics FAQ
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/calendar.html

The Maya Calendar
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/calendar.html

A discourse on the various Maya calendars which also contains a
Java widget to convert Gregorian Dates to the corresponding Maya
calender date.

GORP Made Up of Time The Mayan Ruins of Mexico Guatemala Belize & Honduras
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/latamer/arc_maya.htm

The Maize Page
http://maize.agron.iastate.edu/

Mayan Epigraphic Database Project
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/med/home.html

Maya Fonts to download
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/mayan.html

Tzuk Te
http://www.pauahtun.org/

Mayan calendar information, Mayan epigraphy information, Mayan language information

Rabbit in the Moon: Mayan Glyphs and Architecture
http://www.halfmoon.org/
Mayan hieroglyphics and a virtual pyramid of Kukulcan (El Castillo)

Mayan Language Page
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/mayan.html

Summer Institute of Linguistics
http://www.sil.org/

The focus of this site is the study of minority languages and cultures around the world. Academic domains represented here include linguistics, anthropology, literacy, translation, and computing.

Ancient Mesoamerican Writing
http://pages.prodigy.com/GBonline/ancwrite.html

JASON Project
http://www.jasonproject.org/

JASON 5 Expedition Sites
http://www.jasonproject.org/

Maya Environment
http://www.michielb.nl/maya/geographical.html

Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) - Mystery of the Maya
http://www.civilization.ca/
The Canadian Museum of Civilization site complements the IMAX film, Mystery of the Maya, co-produced by the museum. The Web exhibit has links to info on the Maya civilization, the IMAX film, and other Maya-related sites of interest.

GORP Mayan Guatemala Belize & Honduras
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/latamer/arc_camr.htm
Tikal in Guatemala is probably the best restored example of classical Mayan style. But Altun Ha, a ceremonial center in Belize, and Copan, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Honduras, also offer rich experiences of classical Mayan cities.

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Mayan Sites and Regions

Mexico
Cultura Maya
http://www.uacam.mx/campeche/maya/indmaya1.htm
Los principales vestigios arqueológicos que se localizan en el estado de Campeche. 

Leyendas Mayas
http://www.uacam.mx/campeche/maya/leymay.htm

Vestigios Arqueológicos
http://www.uacam.mx/campeche/maya/vestigios.htm

World Federation of Acoustic Ecology
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/home/index.html
good information on Ethnomusicology

John C. Mureiko's Maya Photo Adventures.
http://www.cris.com/~Yohon/

Mayan Photo Adventures - John Mureiko
http://www.concentric.net/~yohon/

Mirror Site for Mayan Pics
http://www.shawnk.com/maya/

Maya Temples Home Page
http://www.muse.or.jp/maya/mayahome.html

3D Photography
http://www.3dphoto.net/stereo/stereo.html
This site has a variety of "stereopticon" style 3D photographs, including two of Chichen Itza and one from Teotihuacan.

3D Images from Yucatan
http://www.ukans.edu/~hoopes/506/LePlongeon.htm
based on Le Plongeon's work

Other Mayan Cities and Sites of Mexico
Yaxuna Archaeology Project
http://maya.csuhayward.edu/yaxuna/
Video clips, maps and insightful text describe the work at this
Mayan site 20 kilometers south of Chichen Itza, on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

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Mayan Art

Arte Maya
http://www.artemaya.com/

Maya Vase
http://www.mayavase.com/

Flutes from Piedras Negras
http://www.mayavase.com/perezflutes.html

Maya Art and Books
http://www.maya-art-books.org/

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Mayan Society

Folk Art & Craft Exchange: Mayan Folktales
http://www.folkart.com/~latitude/folktale/folktale.htm

Mayas, The
http://www.indians.org/welker/mayamenu.htm
includes folklore and history

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Travel

Diario de Yucatan
http://edicion.yucatan.com.mx/noticias/portada.asp

Maya Adventure
http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/ma/
an interactive exhibit from the Science Museum if Minnesota

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