Maya nobility performed bloodletting sacrifices to strengthen a 'dying' sun god during solar eclipses
The Maya created a complex calendar system to regulate their world — one of the most accurate of pre-modern times.
Kimberly H. Breuer
Associate Professor of Instruction, University of Texas at Arlington
Kimberly Breuer is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she teaches courses in the history of science and technology and Iberian history and conducts research on teaching and learning. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Vanderbilt University, specializing in Latin American and Native American history in the late medieval and early modern eras. She also earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering and worked in the aircraft industry for several years.
