The view from there found, then the degree of civilization of the Mayan is very developed, their technological level is even higher than our technological level. They have a calendar, to study the moon, the sun and the Earth, the stars, proficient in astronomy and mathematics. Mayan calendar with a calendar in the world are not the same, which makes the most difficult to understand is that they use digital unit is surprisingly large, like the the astronomical calculations required a high degree of purification of the digital system.
In fact, the Mayan understanding of celestial bodies far beyond the solar system. A Mayan calendar called family Belkin "(Tzolkin) impressively recording the Milky Way seasonal change (GalaticSeasons)! No wonder the scientists said Maya human universe traveler "(Galatic Navigator). Since the Mayans can detect the Milky Way seasons change, so if it is able to decipher the Mayan calendar in the records of the parties concerned, for us to understand the mystery of human life and the universe are bound to have a lot of inspiration.
Mayan pyramid that is second only to the pyramids of Egypt, the most famous pyramid building. They do not look like the pyramids of Egypt is a golden yellow, is a quadrangular pyramid has been somewhat eroded over thousands of years of wind and rain. Mayan pyramid is relatively short, but also by boulders piled stone gray, entire pyramid is gray-white, he did not fully tapered top of a ritual of the Temple. Around the Mayan pyramids have four staircases, each stairs 92 first-order, four stairs plus top order of three hundred sixty-five order (91x4 +1 = 365), just good days in a year.
Maya attaches great importance to astronomy data, these figures on the laws of celestial bodies everywhere in his building. In addition to the ladder number each fifty-two the four corners of relief, said five years of the century Mayan pyramid surrounded by.
These buildings today's point of view is enough amazing. Mayan pyramid, how the huge stones cut chisel, carried to the depths of the jungle, then a block of more than 10 tons of stones piled up heaps high seven ten meters, if there is no state-of-the-art transport and from the heavy equipment, it is difficult to accomplish this task. National living in the jungle, why spend so much effort to establish a network of astronomical observations? Historical records, the telescope Galileo invented until the sixteenth century, and then only the emergence of large-scale Observatory, astronomical observation network concept is modern, this concept is quite advanced. It can certainly Mayan time science today compared favorably.
No one would feel great right from the primary school Arabic numerals must! But ten digits 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 arranged. Maybe we do not know, this concept of 0 Arabs brought to Europe from India in ancient times, Europeans do not have such a simple digital concept. Greeks good at invention, but they must be the number of letters to write; Romans will use digital, but only four digits graphically represented.
Mayans used that a cross, with a shell-shaped symbols represent zero to represent numbers
Archaeologists study the Mayan digital systems, digital expression abacus abacus with the same purpose. They use three symbols:, a cross, a shell-shaped symbols represent zero ─ ─ can represent any number. Similar principle is applied in the computer "binary system".
This counting method, you can use the digital astronomy, discovered in Guatemala Giri melon called Stone subject of carved stone pillars, recorded figures of 90 million years, 400 million years.
Maya meter units surprisingly, archaeologists already know the value:
In twenty day a Venal
Eighteen Venal a Tuen equal to Three Six ○ day
Twenty Tuen a card Tuen adieu ○ ○
The twenty cards Tuen a Buck Tuen equal forty-four thousand ○ ○ ○ Day
Twenty Buck Tuen the one gram Tuen equal to 280 eighty thousand days
The twenty grams Tun a Calabria the Tuen equal Wuqi ○ Wan sixth day
Twenty Calabria Tuen Ginch ear Tuen equal to eleven hundred and fifty days ○ ○ million
Twenty of Ginch ears Tuen as a equal to Allah Tuen, Ersan ○ billion of ○ ○ ○ Day
Why develop such large numbers? This figure units to less than even modern. Such large numbers to the scientific point of view, perhaps only one discipline is used, it is astronomy. Astronomers often use digital units intergalactic distance only astronomy astronomical "to be so large.
