Maya civilization An ancient civilization that read the stars and built cities in the jungle. 🌌 The Maya mastered time, math, and astronomy—without modern tools. Pyramids, calendars, and mysteries left behind in stone. A civilization far ahead of its time… and then suddenly gone. The Maya didn’t just build temples—they decoded the universe. Lost cities, advanced science, and unanswered questions. Jungle-covered ruins hiding the secrets of the Maya. Ancient minds that understood the future of ti

Did you know the Maya didn't have just one calendar? In fact, they had many. They had a religious calendar (tzolk'in) which consisted of 260 days, an agricultural calendar (haab) which consisted of 365 days and a long count calendar which fixed dates in absolute time and had been around since August 13, 3114 BCE, when the current world was created, according to Maya belief. Learn more about the Maya calendar in this informative interview with Dr. Nikolai Grube, Curator of Maya: The Exhibition. D