Role in the Copan Polity. He published The Murals of San Bartolo, El Peten, Guatemala, Part 1: The North Wall (2005) and its companion The Murals of San Bartolo, El Peten, Guatemala, Part 2: The West Wall (2010) with noted Mayan scholar Karl Taube. He has also written several academic articles on the subjects of San Bartolo, ancient Mayan religion and iconography, Mayan political organization and collapse, among many other Mesoamerican subjects, most recently in the journals Ancient Mesoamerica, American Anthropologist, Antiquity, and Science. Saturno's most recent publication is "An early Maya calendar record from San Bartolo, Guatemala" (2022). Saturno works extensively with National Geographic, from which he has received many grants, and has appeared in many of their broadcasts on the ancient Maya, and the ancient Mayan 'prophecy' about the 2012 'Apocalypse' (he very vocally disagreed with the interpretation of the Maya calendar predicting the end of the world) as well as several National Geographic LIVE events. In 2013, he appeared in the National Geographic LIVE event, New Light on the Ancient Maya and will be appearing in another of their events, In Search of the Ancient Maya, where he will give an overview of the archaeological history of the Classical Maya. He also was featured in the History Channel's Indiana Jones and the Ultimate Quest. References Mayanists American Mesoamericanists Mesoamerican archaeologists American archaeologists Boston University faculty University of Arizona alumni Harvard University alumni Living people 21st-century Mesoamericanists Year of birth missing (living people)