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Sites and Monuments
Links
Photos from Lamanai
http://mayaruins.com/lamanai.html
Includes photos, and information about David Pendergast, who excavated the site.
Photos from Tikal
http://mayaruins.com/tikal.html
A collection of photos from the Mayan archaeological site of Tikal in the Peten jungle of Guatemala.
Southernmost Rise of Venus at Uxmal, 1997
http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~n6tst/maya/
Pictorial account of the expedition to photograph the southernmost rise of Venus, which occurs once every eight years.
Stock Photos: Bonampak.
http://www.anthroarcheart.org/bonampak.htm
Includes medium-resolution photographs; sells high-resolution images.
Temple Assemblages at Zacpeten
http://home.att.net/%7epugh.t/zacpeten.htm
The site of Zacpetn occupies a peninsula on Lake Salpetn in Petn, Guatemala, which has ceremonial architecture formally arranged in temple assemblages, nearly identical to those of Mayapn in Yucatan, Mexico.
The Caracol Archaeological Project
Large, ongoing Maya archaeological site in Belize, Central America.
Thresholds: Copan Ruins
http://www.thresholds.net/copan/index.html
Photo gallery with notes for tourists.
Tikal Digital Access Project at the University of Pennsylvania Museum
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/tdap/
Aims to make available online the archive of the Museum's archaeological investigation (1956-1970) of the ancient Maya site of Tikal, Guatemala.
Tikal Ruins
http://www.bootsnall.com/cgi-bin/gt/camericatravelguides/dec00tikal.shtml
Guide and information about the ruins. Includes links, photos and travel guide.
Tomb of the Jade Jaguar
http://www.maya-art-books.org/jade_lecture.html
Slide show, available in English, German, or Spanish, for museums, libraries, and schools on how archaeologists find the tombs of ancient Maya kings beneath the pyramid-temples. Lecture is based on Nicholas Hellmuth's discovery.