Natural wells are called cenotes from the Mayan word dsonoot.

The Maya describe the Yucatan as "u luumil cutz, u luumil ceh, mayab u kabah" - the land of the pheasant, the land of the deer and Mayab is its name.

The word puuc means "hilly country" in the Maya language of the Yucatec.

The first three rows of a Mayan corn field were for travelers.

True windows are rarely found in Maya architecture.

Contorted acrobats appear in Maya art, frequently with their legs arching over their heads and supplied with snake markings, as if alluding to the sinuous contortions of a serpent.

The Maya conceived the afterlife to be a journey, a harrowing that one might successfully overcome.

Only at the Maya site of Yaxchilan are women depicted in association with the ballgame.

In the Mayan calendar, each month has supernatural patron; the water lily jaguar, for example, oversees the first month, Pop.

In Maya icongraphy, canoes carry the dead through their precarious passage from the world of the living to the world of the dead.

The skeletal remains of many Maya royal burials reveal that bodies were liberally coated with cinnabar.

The Maya identified the colour white with the North and the colour yellow with the South.

Among the Maya, upper incisors were sometimes filed to the T-shape of the Sun God.

There is a widespread Maya belief that the soul travels in dreams while one is asleep.