| A | B |
|---|
| Cenote | A deep Natural well made out of limestone; sink hole |
| Curio | Any unusual article |
| Astronomer | One who studies stars, planets and other heavenly bodies |
| Authentic | Genuine, real |
| Emblem Glyph | A hieroglyph that identifies a particular ancient Mayan City |
| Sarcophagus | A stone coffin or tomb, often decorated with carvings |
| Glyphs | A symbolic character usally carved |
| Trawler | A boat for fishing by dragging a heavy net along the sea bottom |
| Ritual or Rite | A formal, cereminal act, usally part of a religion |
| Deciphering | To figure out the meaning of; to translate |
| Symmetry | Similarity in form and arrangement of things on opposite sides of a center line |
| Bends | Pain or paralysis caused by the formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood because of a sudden lowering of atomopheric pressure ( also called ciasson disease and dicompression sickness) |
| Stela | An upright stone slab carved with inscriptions |
| Poultice | a soft moist mixture put on the body as medicine |
| Hypothesis | A theory of proposition which has not yet been proven |
| Reef | A ridge of coral or sand near the surface of the water |
| Archeaologist | One who studies the life and culture of ancient people by studing their monuments, artifacts an inscriptions |
| Replica | a copy of work of art of other subject |
| Looting | to steal for am archeological site |
