MEC Research

Online Publications

This is where you will find publications not directly related to MEC's current and past research, written by our research associates and others who have submitted their work to MEC for publication.

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Palenque Mapping Project

The data gathered during the project has to date resulted in the creation of what has been described as the most accurate and detailed map of maya ruins ever made.

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Featured Tour

Palenque, Bonampak, and Yaxchilan

FEB 17-23, 2025

This tour's path will lead into rain forests of Chiapas, where some of the most beautiful ancient Maya cities reside. Palenque, perhaps the most sophisticated of all ancient Maya kingdoms, will be the headliner of the week, but other ancient cities, remote Maya communities, and local museums will also be part of the adventure. Details

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Lectures

For academic institutions and organizations. MEC lectures on ancient culture and archaeology for campus event centers and unions offers a variety of public academic presentations for university and college campuses.

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Please contribute to the Maya Exploration Center today. Help us continue to uncover the mysteries of the ancient Maya and increase awareness of North America's most sophisticated ancient civilization, the Maya.

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BECOME A MEMBER

Join the Maya Exploration Center Membership Program and become an active participant in recovering ancient knowledge. We invite our members to actively participate in the process of discovery.

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Dr. Ed TV appearances

Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed

Five hundred years ago, Spanish conquistadors searching for gold and new lands to settle stumbled on a group of independent city-states in Mesoamerica, a region extending for more than a thousand miles from the desert of northern Mexico to the rain forest of Central America.

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MEC recommends

ArchaeoEd: A podcast about Ancient civilizations of the Americas

Dr. Edwin Barnhart, director of the Maya Exploration Center, has over twenty five years of experience in Central, South, and North America as an archaeologist, an explorer, and an instructor.
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