Ancient Mayan's Acoustic Secrets


	Ancient Mayan's Acoustic Secrets

invictus

11-30-2006 12:58 PM

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ancient history, mesoamerica, archaeology, maya, mayan, acoustics, sound, architecture

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12-1-2006 10:50 PM

sohil

Wow and we consider the Greeks to be Masters of Acoustics.

12-1-2006 10:55 PM

Balzac

Creative but skeptical - still A+ for any grants derived from the thesis

12-2-2006 3:50 PM

haraya

Most interesting!

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