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The Northern Region of Coahuila has approximately 300,000 inhabitants. According to the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Data Processing (INEGI), in 2005 the population of the municipio of Piedras Negras was 143,915 inhabitants, equal to 5.77% of the population of Coahuila. 17% of the population of Piedras Negras came from other states, 3% were foreigners, and the rest were born ...
Piedras Negras is a priceless archaeological site, known for its large sculptural output when compared to other ancient Maya sites. [1] The wealth of sculpture , in conjunction with the precise chronological information associated with the lives of the settlement's elite , has allowed archaeologists to reconstruct the political history of the ...
Piedras Negras: Guatemala: Stela 22 Itzam K'an Ahk II: Piedras Negras: Guatemala: Stela 23 Ha' K'in Xook: Piedras Negras: Guatemala: Stela 25 K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I: Piedras Negras: Guatemala: Stela 26 9.9.11.12.3 11 November 624 K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I: Piedras Negras: Guatemala: Portrait of the monarch, standing, with a captive. [262] Stela 29 ...
Throne 1 of Piedras Negras, which details the transfer of power from Haʼ Kʼin Xook to his successor Kʼinich Yat Ahk II.. Haʼ Kʼin Xook, who has also been referred to as Ruler 6, [1] was likely the son of Itzam Kʼan Ahk II, based on a translation of Stela 23.
Piedras Negras Municipality is one of the 38 municipalities of Coahuila, in north-eastern Mexico.The municipal seat lies at Piedras Negras.The municipality covers an area of 914.2 km 2 and is located on the international border between Mexico and the USA, here formed by the Río Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande), adjacent to the U.S. state of Texas.
Coahuila, [a] formally Coahuila de Zaragoza, [b] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza, [c] is one of the 32 states of Mexico.The largest city and State Capital is the city of Saltillo; the second largest is Torreón and the third largest is Monclova (a former state capital); the fourth largest is Piedras Negras; and the fifth largest is Ciudad Acuña.
Tatiana Proskouriakoff (Russian: Татья́на Авени́ровна Проскуряко́ва, tr. Tatyana Avenirovna Proskuryakova; 23 January [O.S. 10 January] 1909 – 30 August 1985) was a Russian-American Mayanist scholar and archaeologist who contributed significantly to the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphs, the writing system of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.
Piedras Negras may refer to: Piedras Negras, Coahuila, a city in the state of Coahuila, Mexico Piedras Negras Municipality, a municipality in Mexico, with the center in the eponymous city; Piedras Negras (Maya site), an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the present-day Petén department of Guatemala