Achievements

Mayans are well-known for their art/sculpting skills exhibited in temples, jewelry, and stone sculptures

The Maya also made advancements in math in science in that the created observatories to study astronomy
~created a calendar

This calendar was often used in agriculture for farming activities and religious activities

Created one of the earliest number systems, most famously the number zero

The created a writing system consisting of symbols of which they used for records and books

Poetry were at first told orally, but when the Spanish came, they put them in the book of legends and information called the Popul Vuh