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The '''Maya''' are an Mesoamerican people living in what today in most parts is [[Mexico]], Guatemala, Belize, and some western portions of Honduras and El Salvador. In pre-Columbian times their culture is considered as one of the most advanced in all of the Americas; it included a elaborate [[Hieroglyph]]ic writing system, a precise [[Calender]], as well as beautiful art and architecture.

The ancient Maya are also known for their bloodthirsty wars among the city states located across the [[Yucatan]] peninsula and the highlands to the east, as well as their ritual human sacrifices that supposedly took place atop the [[Pyramids]] located in every city. They, however, share these traits with some of the other Mesoamerican cultures like the [[Aztec]]s.

When the Spaniards arrived in the early 1500s, they quickly conquered the already in decline Maya cities and only few pre-Columbian documents survived the following Christianisation. Today their cities are mostly ruins, overgrown by the jungle.

== The Maya in Tomb Raider ==
The stories and the culture of the Maya play a vital part in [[Shadow of the Tomb Raider]]. [[Lara Croft (Reboot)|Lara]] is looking for the [[Key of Chak Chel]], a obsidian dagger and supposedly the key that opens the [[Silver Box of Ix Chel]], when she inadvertently triggers [[The Cleansing]], a Maya apocalypse, that starts with earthquakes and a tsunami laying waste to [[Cozumel]].

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 == The Maya in Tomb Raider ==
 === Tomb Raider: Underworld ===
-There are a lot of Maya influences visible in the [[Mexico|Mexican]] levels of [[Tomb Raider: Underworld]], e.g. the [[Maya Calendar]] puzzle or the Maya underworld of [[Xibalba]].
+There are a lot of Maya influences visible in the [[Mexico|Mexican]] levels of [[Tomb Raider: Underworld]], e.g. [[The Unnamed Days]] or the [[Maya Calendar]] puzzle that leads to the Maya underworld of [[Xibalba]]. However, the mythological background of these are barely explained. The whole Mexican setting only serves as another place where some underworld has to be explored in order to stop [[Natla]].
 === Shadow of the Tomb Raider ===

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		+	=== Tomb Raider: Underworld ===
		+	There are a lot of Maya influences visible in the [[Mexico\|Mexican]] levels of [[Tomb Raider: Underworld]], e.g. the [[Maya Calendar]] puzzle or the Maya underworld of [[Xibalba]].
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		+	=== Shadow of the Tomb Raider ===
	The stories and the culture of the Maya play a vital part in [[Shadow of the Tomb Raider]]. [[Lara Croft (Reboot)\|Lara]] is looking for the [[Key of Chak Chel]], a obsidian dagger and supposedly the key that opens the [[Silver Box of Ix Chel]], when she inadvertently triggers [[The Cleansing]], a Maya apocalypse, that starts with earthquakes and a tsunami laying waste to [[Cozumel]].		The stories and the culture of the Maya play a vital part in [[Shadow of the Tomb Raider]]. [[Lara Croft (Reboot)\|Lara]] is looking for the [[Key of Chak Chel]], a obsidian dagger and supposedly the key that opens the [[Silver Box of Ix Chel]], when she inadvertently triggers [[The Cleansing]], a Maya apocalypse, that starts with earthquakes and a tsunami laying waste to [[Cozumel]].