Mayans are among the most mysterious inhabitants of ever occupying our Earth.The term "tribe" is not suitable for them, because it was a fairly advanced civilization, which originated in the territory of central America until Mexico.
And even the little that has got us, contemporaries of culture and knowledge, who controlled the Mayans, striking anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists high.Scientists have found evidence that they were able to develop a special, very detailed system of timing and alphabet of characters.
Mayans lived in what is now Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Mexico.The exact date of their appearance remains unknown, apparently just that for ten centuries BC in this area already existed settlement mysterious people.
This civilization is known for its pyramidal tombs and temples, miraculously survived after the Spanish who ruthlessly destroyed all that was considered "pagan idols", or accessories of pagan worship.So it was destroyed most of the chronicles of which was Maya writing.
However, even such barbaric attitude to the culture of this nation could not completely destroy the traces of his stay on the continent.And even the very little that archaeologists have found at the site of ancient settlements, confirms the high level of their development.
Maya hunted a lot.Their main and the only weapon a long time considered serbatany - a bamboo tube from which hunters fired clay balls.Shoot a bow representatives of the people have learned from their neighbors - the Aztecs.
Today we know that the representatives of the people were great farmers, developed agricultural technology, far ahead of their time.Arts and crafts, which the Mayans possessed, so it is interesting that the work started by their hands still amazes our imagination.
least one hundred and fifty years ago, in the areas where they lived in the ancient Indians, were found the ruins - ancient Maya city.Over thousands of years the dense tropical forest hidden from the human eye their temples, palaces and even a huge pyramid.Although these tombs are inferior in size Egyptian, however, they are much richer decorated with stone carvings.
Mayans worshiped many gods, and they believed that every class, every profession has certainly patron deity.Even the world famous Mayan calendar defined for each day of his god.
Many of us have heard that 2012 is the year of the end of the world, but not everyone knows that the date of the apocalypse occurred in deciphering the famous calendar of the Maya, created thousands of years ago.
Reckoning from this ancient people ends on December 21 of this year.Today a lot of talk about it and write.Some believe in the inevitability of the end of the world, others just laugh, considering the Mayan calendar is not more than a mysticism.And although many of us are not superstitious, but still we feel some concern.
However, Maya, making his famous calendar counting his 5216 years, does not imply that his end come to an end, on the contrary, they predicted the restoration of the balance between the masculine and feminine principles.
Yet not even the calendar is the most mysterious in the history of this ancient civilization.About a thousand years ago the Maya suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth, and no one can truthfully say, why it happened and what happened with this development of the people - Maya Indians.
