I think the Toltecs were the most bloody, degenerate, disreputable culture that has disgraced the planet in semi-recorded history (present company excluded, of course). Handball games where the captain of the winning team was obliged to decapitate the captain of the losing team and then do a slam-dunk with the head?
No, thanks. The ruins in Chichen-Itza are impressive, though. --Doug On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > Mexico is for the USA what Egypt is for Europe: > a nearby place for holidays with magnificient ruins of an ancient culture > (although I prefer Greece > or Italy for holidays instead of Egypt). I wonder how many of you have been > walking around real Maya pyramids with Linda Schele's book "The Code of > Kings" or Michael D. Coe's text about "The Maya" in your hands? > > Do you share the impression that most major > temples and pyramids have been found and most of the preserved hieroglyphs > have been deciphered? > How much is left to discover in archaeology > and other sciences? It looks like the things that can be calculated with > "bare hands" have already been done in Mathematics as well.. > What do you think? > > -J. > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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