Maya nobility performed bloodletting sacrifices to strengthen a 'dying' sun god during solar eclipses

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Maya nobility performed bloodletting sacrifices to strengthen a 'dying' sun god during solar eclipses

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Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 months ago

The Maya created a complex calendar system to regulate their world — one of the most accurate of pre-modern times.

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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