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Far from being a personal cosmetic accessory, mirrors in Mesoamerica were divinatory aids and also formed a part of elite status costume. [5] Mirrors were viewed as metaphors for sacred caves and as conduits for supernatural forces; they were associated with fiery hearths and pools of water because of their bright surfaces.
The tomb held polychrome decorated pottery, jade and shell jewelry, bone artifacts (likely hollow bone flutes), and a slate-backed pyrite mosaic mirror, while the interred individual and tomb floor were generously covered with cinnabar (red ochre), typically reserved as a sign of Maya royalty.15 [14] By 800 CE, the site population is estimated ...
The Ancient Maya (6th, fully revised ed.). Stanford, California, US: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-4817-9. OCLC 57577446. Stuart, David (Spring–Autumn 1996). "Kings of Stone: A Consideration of Stelae in Ancient Maya Ritual and Representation". RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics. 29–30 (29/30 The Pre–Columbian).
Very little is known about the collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization but scientists are getting closer to figuring out what happened thanks to the Blue Hole. The Blue Hole is a massive ...
“A glass mirror, for protection against the Evil Eye was placed in the middle of the plaque,” Navit Popovitch, a curator with the Israel Antiquities Authority, explained in the release.
The Chiik Naab murals are a group of ancient Maya mural paintings located in a substructure of building 1 at the great acropolis of Chiik Naab in the Maya city of Calakmul in southern Campeche, Mexico. The paintings show various scenes of the daily life in the Maya city that includes the consumption of food and drink such as tamales and atole ...
The Maya civilization (/ ˈ m aɪ ə /) was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period.It is known by its ancient temples and glyphs (script).
The ancient metropolis was the capital of the Maya’s K’anwitznal kingdom, and during Ucanal’s peak, from roughly 630 to 1000, city settlements covered about 10 square miles (26 square ...