Speech on: “Between the Realm of Fear and the Foggy Sky: A Journey through the Yucatan Peninsula, Searching for the Mayans in the Jungle and Underground Rivers

According to a 1,300–year–old tablet, the Mayan calendar recorded the end of the world on December 21, 2012. The presenter decided to experience the Apocalypse on the spot and from a privileged position, at the top of their highest pyramid, patiently together with his family. On December 22, 2012, a Mayan shaman explained to him that it was not a conspiracy bombshell. Who were these innovative farmers, mathematicians, astronomers, and architects of cities and pyramids whose Mesoamerican empire, in present–day southern Mexico and Guatemala, was born in 1,800 B.C. and flourished from 420 to 820 A.D., reaching a 2-million population? What happened in the 9th century and a cataclysmic decline? How did the Spanish Conquistadors find them in 1.517 AD? How do they live today?

Speaker: The Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of KDK, Mr. Apostolos Iliopoulos (Assistant Professor, University of Stratford, Director of Information Technology License Inspection, Philadelphia – Pennsylvania, USA).

The speech is addressed to adults.