Kennedy in Kenan: This Date in History

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“Today is a special day in the ancient Maya calendar, the day of "thirteen stones." A stone (tun), symbolized the 360-day period of the Long Count, and 13 was a very sacred number. Today would be fully expressed as 13.0.13.0.0 4 Ahau 18 Yax. This hieroglyph from Palenque reads uxlajuun tuun, "it is 13 stones," marking a similar station in 744 CE. (Photo by Jorge Perez de Lara).”

From friend David Stuart
 
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“Today is a special day in the ancient Maya calendar, the day of "thirteen stones." A stone (tun), symbolized the 360-day period of the Long Count, and 13 was a very sacred number. Today would be fully expressed as 13.0.13.0.0 4 Ahau 18 Yax. This hieroglyph from Palenque reads uxlajuun tuun, "it is 13 stones," marking a similar station in 744 CE. (Photo by Jorge Perez de Lara).”

From friend David Stuart
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Mayan numerals are cool. It's a base 20 system. The bars are fives and the dots are ones. Two bars and three dots equals 13. My favorite class in college (not UNC at the time) was Mayan Art and Architecture. Smokeshow professor, small amphitheater dual slide projectors usually with a photo of a monument on one and the corresponding line drawing on the other to make the iconography easier to read. I skipped a lot of classes, never that one.
 
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Mayan numerals are cool. It's a base 20 system. The bars are fives and the dots are ones. Two bars and three dots equals 13. My favorite class in college (not UNC at the time) was Mayan Art and Architecture. Smokeshow professor, small amphitheater dual slide projectors usually with a photo of a monument on one and the corresponding line drawing on the other to make the iconography easier to read. I skipped a lot of classes, never that one.
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The friend who posted this is David Stuart: David Stuart (Mayanist) - Wikipedia

His father was George Stuart: George E. Stuart - Wikipedia

George Stuart taught at UNC.

That family founded Boundary End Archaeology Research Center in Barnardsville, NC. Boundary End Archaeology Research Center | Archeology of the Americas
 
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