Ancient Mayan Artefacts or Modern Hoax

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The Mexican government is releasing state-held secrets about the end of the Mayan calendar to the makers of a documentary, “Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond,” TheWrap has learned.

The information – protected for 80 years – is expected to reveal Mayan beliefs in future catastrophes and wisdom characterized as “Shocking,” producer Raul Julia-Levy, son of actor Raul Julia, told TheWrap.

Julia-Levy said he’d been made aware of the secret Mayan information by former Mexican president Vicente Fox – a friend of his family – and that it took four years of phone calls to finally get the OK from current president Felipe Calderon.

Julia-Levy has been specifically ordered not to talk about any of the more mystical possibilities that might strain credulity as Mexico prepares to launch the far-reaching 2012 Mayan World Program.

The project is similar in some ways to a novel Julia-Levy was writing, variously entitled “Chronicles of the Mayan Tunnel” and “Secrets of the Mayan Time Machine.” He and co-producer Elbert were also going to make a 3D movie from that novel starring him and Wesley Snipes, he said in the summer of 2010.

A dispute over a troubled documentary about the Mayan civilization has prompted a libel lawsuit against Los Angeles news blog, TheWrap and writer Steve Pond for at least $1 million on allegations of libel, invasion of privacy and defamation.

In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Thieriot charges that she financed a documentary titled Revelations of the Mayans: 2012 and Beyond, in partnership with Raul Julia-Levy, but that she had to shut the production in Mexico down after he misused rented equipment and enlisted the local authorities to try and “Steal the footage, equipment and documentary” from her.