// // // // // *********************************************** function text() { }; text = new text(); number = 0; // textArray text[number++] = "The Maya were using the concept of zero more than 1500 years before it caught on in Europe." text[number++] = "The Maya were the only ancient culture in the America's to develop the concept of zero." text[number++] = "The Maya were one of only five cultures on Earth to develop an original written language, in company with the ancient Chinese, Harappans, Sumerians and Egyptians." text[number++] = "Copan Stela A contains evidence that the Maya were able to calculate the year to an accuracy of 365.2422 days." text[number++] = "Painted handprints in Yucatan's Loltun Cave suggest that people of Maya stature had been in the area as early as 10,000 years ago." text[number++] = "In 1996, Dutch epigrapher Erik Boot discovered the ancient name of Chichen Itza in the site's hieroglyphic texts. Its name is Yabnal, meaning Place of Flowers or Place of Reeds." text[number++] = "The ancient Maya practiced ancestor worship and their kings' supernatural power was based on their ability to contact their deceased ancestors through bloodletting." text[number++] = "According to the ancient Maya, we now live in the world's fourth creation, which began August 13th, 3114 BC." text[number++] = "The cultures of Mesoamerica were they only ones on Earth to develop a 260-day calendar cycle." text[number++] = "The tallest structure in the Maya world (and all of Mesoamerica) is the Danta Pyramid at the Preclassic site of El Mirador, reaching a height of 70 meters." text[number++] = "The earliest Maya Long Count date yet discovered was carved on Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo (in modern day Chiapas). It records 7.16.3.2.13, or December 7, 36 BC." text[number++] = "In 1952, Russian scholar Yuri Knorosov proved phoneticism existed in ancient Maya script and Mexican archaeologist Alberto Ruz Lhuillier discovered the Tomb of Pakal at Palenque." text[number++] = "Stela E at Quirigua, commissioned in the late 700's AD, is the tallest stone monolith ever found in the Americas, standing 10.7 meters in height." text[number++] = "The Itza Maya Empire around Lake Peten resisted Spanish domination until 1697, when Lord Kan Ek was captured at Noj Peten (now the island of Flores)." text[number++] = "In 1839, John Lloyd Stephens bought the ruins of Copan, Honduras from the land owner, Don Jose Maria, for $50 US!" text[number++] = "Pakal the Great of Palenque was the longest reigning ruler in known Maya history, ruling 68 years, from the age of 12 until 80." text[number++] = "The earliest known Maya hieroglyphic inscription was discovered in 2005 at San Bartolo, Guatemala and carbon dates to 200-300 BC." // keep adding items here... increment = Math.floor(Math.random() * number); document.write(text[increment]); //-->