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Altar 8 is sculpted with a bound captive. [155] It was found within Complex P in Group H and is now in the Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología in Guatemala City. [98] Altar 9 is associated with Stela 21 and bears the sculpture of a bound captive. It is located in front of Temple VI. [83] Altar 10 is carved with a captive tied to a ...
Pyramid at El Mirador. El Mirador (which translates as "the lookout", "the viewpoint", or "the belvedere") is a large pre-Columbian Middle and Late Preclassic (1000 BC – 250 AD) Maya settlement, located in the north of the modern department of El Petén, Guatemala.
Antigua, the capital of the Captaincy-General of Guatemala, was founded in the early 16th century. Built 1,500 m above sea-level, in an earthquake-prone region, it was largely destroyed by an earthquake in 1773 but its principal monuments are still preserved as ruins.
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.
Enormous obsidian beds lying 20 km northeast of Guatemala City and known as El Chayal (Kakchikel Maya for "obsidian") are long presumed to have been the most important material basis for Kaminaljuyu's ascendance as the greatest polity in the SMA as well as its continuation as the preeminent city in the Southern Maya Area during the Classic ...
A Bronze Age City. Mosul Dam, Nineveh, Iraq. The brutal drought over the summer revealed the remains of a 3,400-year-old city in Iraq’s Mosul Dam. The settlement, which is usually engulfed by ...
The ruins were discovered near Frauenwörth Abbey, which was founded around 782, according to officials. The initial surveys of the area were intended to identify a church belonging to the ...
Piedras Negras is the modern name for an ancient, ruined city of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization located on the north bank of the Usumacinta River in the Petén department of northwestern Guatemala. The Mayan name for the city was Yo'k'ib' ([ˈjoʔkʼib]) or Yokib'. Piedras Negras was one of the most powerful of the Usumacinta ancient Maya ...