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Books on the Maya and the ancient Americas in the home library. Notes are short, and more come with reading.

The Maya

The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya: David Stuart Princeton University Press, 2026.
A new history of the Maya by the epigrapher who read tz’ihb. The account of Tikal’s defeat in 562 on the Encounters and People pages comes from it.
The Order of Days: David Stuart Year to add.
The Maya calendar and the 2012 date.
Palenque: Eternal City of the Maya: David Stuart Publisher and year to add.
The city of Pakal.
A Forest of Kings: Linda Schele and David Freidel William Morrow, 1990.
Maya history told through its kings.
Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya: Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos Yale University Press, 2017.
Gods, myth, and the Popol Vuh in Maya art. Source for much of Gods and ritual.
Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art: Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, James A. Doyle, and Joanne Pillsbury, editors The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022.
The catalogue of the Met exhibition on Maya gods.

Pre-Columbian Art: Esther Pasztory Cambridge University Press, 1998.
A survey of the arts of the ancient Americas by a scholar of Teotihuacan.
Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art: S. K. Lothrop and others Dumbarton Oaks, year to add.
A guide to the collection now at Dumbarton Oaks.

Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World: Barbara Braun Harry N. Abrams, 1993.
How ancient American art shaped modern artists and architects.
Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas: Joanna Reynolds-Kaye, editor, with an essay by Michael D. Coe Yale University Press, 2017.
The Alberses and the objects they collected in Mexico and beyond.
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist: Anne Truitt Pantheon Books, 1982.
An artist’s journal that names Maya temple building as a source for her work.

From the home library catalog, November 6, 2026. Publishers and years marked to add are not yet in the catalog.