An adventure to Mexico and Guatemala to research the culture and heritage of their peoples. On our journey we learn of extensive similarities between the Maya and Chinese, not least DNA, customs and cultures. We travel to La Venta, where the Olmec are first believed to have settled by 1600 BC, although this date is continuously being pushed back – that is at the same time that Ramses II was building his temples; before the Assyrian Empire and a thousand years before the Parthenon was built in Athens.
Further reading:
Alexander Von Wuthenau – Unexpected Faces in Ancient America – http://amzn.to/1fDNuk0
Gallenkamp, Charles. Maya – the riddle and rediscovery of a lost civilisation. London: Penguin books, 1987.
Riley, Carroll L., et al., eds. Man Across the Sea. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971.
Smith, G. Elliot. Elephants and Ethnologists: Asiatic Origins of the Maya Ruins. London: Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1924.
