Nice skull looking thing. If you look at it it probably means you're cursed and will die in a month...too late
More glyphs. These tell you what date the statue was built. The Mayans had a really complex calendar system with several different cycles going on. There's the 260 day calendar, the 365 day calendar and so on and so forth. This here tells us that this was built in the year of the beaver and the era of the turtle. Impressed with my knowledge? Actually I have no clue but my fellow teacher and roommate Dale liked to take out his book and guess at each marking. Personally I think the archeologists are making it up because the drawings in that book look nothing like these markings, but you gotta get your grant funding somehow.
Another nifty statue honoring some Mayan leader
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