GRAN JAGUAR
Al templo I se le conoce como “Gran Jaguar”, por el jaguar tallado en el dintel (elemento horizontal que se encuentra en el área superior de las ventanas, las puertas y otras aberturas) de su puerta principal. El templo se construyó luego de la muerte de Jasaw Chan K’awiil I, siguiendo sus especificaciones y corresponde al monumento funerario de dicho gobernante (Leiva, 2012 citado por Vásquez y Cordero, 2018).
In all history there are milestones that demarcate a succession of events and in the ancient Mayan cities there must have been referential places, the mythical city of Tulán is one of them.
The oldest dated monument known so far from the ancient city of Tikal, is Stela 29. The back face of the stele features the date 8.12.14.8.15 in a long account, equivalent to July 8, 292 A.D. His discovery contributed to the study of the Maya one...
The Mueum Lytic of Tikal was built in 1982 and it was opened to the public until 1989, under the initiative of the National Tikal Project. It safeguard a collection of 25 monuments exposed to the public permanently. This collection consists of 21...
Mayan glyphs are signs engraved on a hard surface and represent the energy or strength of a person or some natural elements, they also tell the story about some very important event, (Chinchilla and Fahsen, 1991). In Mayan cosmology, glyphs refer...
City Of TIkal
Tikal is located in the department of Petén and is one of the most important cities in the Mayan world. Of the few that survived the crisis of the Preclassic Period to be reborn in...
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