Pre-Columbian CD-ROMs.

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        There is a company called Sumeria that has a CD called "Exploring
the Lost Maya" which follows their previous release "Exploring Ancient
Cities". It covers the time period from 150BC to 1500AD and covers some
40 sites. Narrative is by Dr. Robert Sharer of the University of
Pennsylvania. They were at the 4th Miami Conference on pre-Columbian
Studies earlier this month and their product looks quite interesting.
Price is $49.95, release date Feb 96.
Phone (415) 904-0800
Address 329 Bryant Street, Suite 3D
San Francisco, CA 94107-9680

Info from Ernie Marc (e-marc@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us)

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I know of at least two other CD-ROMs that you might
come across.

"Human Body, Human Spirit - A Portrait of Ancient Mexico",
about $12.95 from Optical Data Systems Inc. is well worth the money.
It is a multimedia presentation of a number of
artifacts from various areas and time periods in Pre_columbian
Mexico.  The photos are high quality; the artifacts are not
just the ones you see everywhere and the associated text
is informative.

"Best of the Mayans: Palenque and Uxmal", about $10 from ESX is
absolutely awful!!  It contains a collection of about 50 poor-quality
photos (most with an objectionable bluish tinge) of sites
that you have probably seen before, accompanied by insipid,
uninformative two-line captions that would insult the intelligence
of a twelve-year old.  The only useful feature on the entire
disk is the one that lets you click on a button to de-install
it once you realize what a dud it is...

Christopher Kocher CKOCHER@CAYMAN.VF.MMC.COM

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Corel has two CD-ROMs with 100 Photo-CD pictures each,
that are royalty free to use for publications.
One is "Aztec and Maya Ruins", the other is "Meso America".
They show the usual well - known sights, Most pictures are
good shots, like any good amateur can do.
Runs on Windows and Mac.  Corel has a huge number of Photo-CDs
in this collection with many other topics.  

Thomas Burglin (burglin@ubaclu.unibas.ch)

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Check the WWW links also.