Maya households buried their dead underneath ... There was a moon goddess, and a maize god. Kukulkan was a huge serpent covered in feathers who controlled rain. Priests recorded their rituals ...

The Maya weavers worked mainly with cotton ... clothing and so were the humans imitating their appearance. The Maize god was an example of this, who wore a netted overskirt made of green jade ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?