How fascinating are the Maya?! I came across an article on MSN today about Mel Gibson’s next movie, “Apocalypto.”

Set in Central America and to be filmed in Veracruz, Mexico, it deals with a Maya family before the Spanish conquest of the 1500s. And it will be spoken in a Maya tongue called Yucateco, used throughout the Yucatan of Mexico.

To read the article: MSNBC: Gibson says new film has ‘mythic proportions’.

In the novel Tractrix, R.J. Archer’s fascination with the Maya and their secrets drives the story, and much of it takes place in the Yucatan and several of its Maya cities.

The current Maya calendar ends Dec. 21, 2012, but there is a lot of conjecture about that date and its meaning. Will it be the start of a NEW Maya calendar or the apocalyptic end of mankind? Whatever you believe, much can be studied about the Maya and there’s still much to unravel about their ancestry and their uncanny knowledge of mathematics and astronomy. The characters in Tractrix suggest the Maya insights were the result of a little “help.”

Tractrix by R. J. Archer
ISBN: 1589395670
VBW Publishing/INGRAMS released Mar. 28, 2004

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