Mexico Hosts International Maya Culture Conference Prensa Latina
go to original June 24, 2013

An international conference that will last until Saturday began yesterday in Mexico, with the objective of disseminating knowledge about the Maya culture and people.

The event, hosted by the city of San Francisco de Campeche, capital of the state with the same name, includes masterly lectures in its program, as well as papers, symposiums and round tables discussions in which 450 academicians from 19 countries will participate.

The masterly lectures will be delivered by academicians of recognized Mexican institutions, as the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the National Institute of Anthropology and History, the Autonomous University of Campeche and the Campechano Institute.

Among those who will speak at the conference, there will be experts of international institutions, as the University of California, Texas State University, in the United States; the Centre de la Recherche Scientifique, in France; the Highest University of San Marcos, in Peru and the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

This event, called "The Mayas in the context of American Cultures," is held every three years in alternate localities related to that ancient ethnic group.

The forum is sponsored this time by the University of Mexico and that of Campeche, the National Council for Culture and Arts, the Institute of Anthropology and the state government.

The Maya civilization, which is around 3,000 years old, was developed in the current territories of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico.

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