Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Maya area: Mayas.png by Yavidaxiu (public domain) Globe location: Maya civilization (orthographic projection).svg by Sémhur (CC-BY-SA 3.0 or Free Art License) Author: Sémhur: Other versions: Maya civilization location map-fa.svg : فارسی Attribution (required by the license)
Map of the Maya region showing locations of some of the principal cities. Click to enlarge. Until the 1960s, scholarly opinion was that the ruins of Maya centres were not true cities but were rather empty ceremonial centres where the priesthood performed religious rituals for the peasant farmers, who lived dispersed in the middle of the jungle. [11]
The peoples and cultures which comprised the Maya civilization spanned more than 2,500 years of Mesoamerican history, in the Maya Region of southern Mesoamerica, which incorporates the present-day nations of Guatemala and Belize, much of Honduras and El Salvador, and the southeastern states of Mexico from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec eastwards, including the entire Yucatán Peninsula.
During the Early Classic period, the Maya cities of Tikal and Kaminaljuyu were key Maya foci in a network that extended into the highlands of central Mexico; [10] there was a strong Maya presence at the Tetitla compound of Teotihuacan. [11] The Maya city of Chichen Itza and the distant Toltec capital of Tula had an especially close relationship ...
Image:Pontic caspian blank map.png; Image:Europe 34 62 -12 54 blank map.png; Image:Northern india blank map.png; Image:Orient 27 43 22 55 blank map.png; Image:Greece 34 43 17 30 blank map.png; Image:Urals blank map.png
The city layout pattern and architecture of Valeriana matches that of the Chactún-Tamchen area to the southeast of the site. [2] The city contains multiple plazas, temple pyramids, a ballgame court, and a dammed reservoir. All these elements are indicative of a Mayan political capital. [2]
For these reasons, the researchers believe that the walls were instead a way to help the inhabitants of the region get around, essentially an ancient Mayan “Google Maps,” they said.
Uxmal (Yucatec Maya: Óoxmáal [óˑʃmáˑl]) is an ancient Maya city of the classical period located in present-day Mexico.It is considered one of the most important archaeological sites of Maya culture, along with Palenque, Chichen Itza and Calakmul in Mexico, Caracol and Xunantunich in Belize, and Tikal in Guatemala.