Maya calendars · the kinds of cycles they tracked

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Your new ahaCycles of time, including solar and ritual cycles.

Maya timekeeping combined several interlocking calendar cycles. Source: Maya calendar ↗

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22Maya glyphs · the information they recordedRECALL
Language, history, ritual, and the lives of rulers.
Maya writing is a full writing system, not simply a set of symbols or pictures.
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23Code of Hammurabi · the kind of material collectedRECALL
Laws from ancient Babylon.
The famous stele presents the king receiving authority from the god Shamash.
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A raised temple complex in ancient Mesopotamia.
Ziggurats were stepped structures linked to religious and civic life in city-states.
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