'Mundo Maya Belize' World of the Maya I created Mundo Maya to show the mainland of Belize, the locations of the Maya ruins, and the wildlife found in the rainforest of Central America. It started as a companion map to the Ambergris Caye Chart but soon took off with an energy of its own and gave me an incurable archaeological bug and a deep love of hieroglyphs, petroglyphs, and pictographs. I wanted to know the meaning of a few glyphs to use as markers for Maya ruins scattered across the country. That quest led me to an Archaeologist living and working in Belize. He loaned me reference books: and soon, I was so hooked on studying the artwork and hieroglyphs of the Maya people that I thought I'd never finish the map. And at moments, I didn't want to finish it; when I wasn't studying Mayan hieroglyphs, I was sitting in the jungle or at the Belize zoo, sketching wildlife for the map. I created this map using an old fashion crow quill pen and a well of India Ink on Arches watercolor paper and layered it with watercolor and colored pencil. (The original drawing has sold).