Site map

Every page on Sakbe, by subject.

The road

• Home. The start of the road.
• The white road. Where the name comes from.
• About. Who keeps the site and how it works.
• New on Sakbe. Changes to the site, newest first.
• Contact. Notes, questions, and corrections.

Places

• Sites. Maya places, A to Z.
• Sites compared. Thirteen places side by side.
• Map. Places across southern Mexico and Central America.
• Troves. Museums and archives with Maya art, objects, books, and photographs.

Words

• Words. Maya words, each with its source.
• Maya languages. Day, sun, year, moon, and star in the Mayan languages.
• Terms. The words archaeologists use, in plain language.

Topics

• Topics. Paths that branch off the road.
• Living Maya. Maya people today.
• Encounters. The Maya and the strangers they met.
• Writing and time. Scribes, glyphs, and counted days.
• Calendars. The 260-day count, the 365-day year, and the Long Count.
• K’ay. The couplet in Maya song and poetry.
• Gods and ritual. Gods, kings, and offerings.
• Land, water, and stone. Food, water, and tools in the forest cities.
• Lidar. Laser maps of the land under the forest.
• Named people. Kings, queens, and the people who studied them.

Scholars and sources

• Archaeologists and epigraphers. Those who read the Maya past in ruins and glyphs.
• Anthropologists. Those who study the Maya of today, and those who came before.
• Historians. Those who read the Maya past in written records after 1500.
• Sources. What the site is built on.
• Shelf. Books on the Maya in the home library.

The look of the site

• Colors. The colors of the site and where they come from.
• Typefaces. Typefaces that borrow from Maya writing.

Days ahead

• K’in. Lectures, meetings, and shows on the Maya.