To speak of the Maya has meant, for a long time now, to approach an enigmatic and fascinating subject, in which fantasy has filled in for the lack of explanations, in many instances, for the undeniable achievements of fuese people, most particularly in the fields of science and art When compared to fue andent cultures of the Old World, however, the Maya are a people with a relatively recent history.The history of humanity, for example, assigns to the third millennia before Christ a time of great achievements and transcendental events in Mesopotamia, India and Egypt. In other regiDoS, especially in the Mediterranean, around the Aegean, signs were already visible of what would become the first important European civilization, Ancient Greece, which reached its most brilliant period in the following millennia.