Urn with lid that consists of a base tetrápode decorated with sea shells and snails made in the technique of modeling and pastillaje and four brackets cylindrical. The conical lids, consists in the figure modeled from God or a Pahuahtun, emerging from a spiral that leads to a way of hat. The visible parts are […]
This beautiful bowl set is a great example of how they saw the tableware ancient mayan. Used to serve and store food. This vessel in space, is decorated with acrobats on its lid, it is known that they are acrobats because they are contorsionando was back by his feet touch your head. This type of
Mask with pieces of green jade, shell, Spondylus, shell, and obsidian. Period: Classical As the olmec, the maya were masters in the creation and manufacturing of masks from various materials, especially jade. The smaller size, you may like what you see here, were smooth on the back and are thought to have been used as
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Dancing with snakes In the art maya of the Late Classic period, there are several representations of men dancing with snakes. Although its meaning is not entirely clear, it is possible that it represents the control of man over nature and the domain of fertility. That is to say, represents sexuality and eroticism.Currently there are
The temple of Kukulkan, in Chichen Itza, shows the profound knowledge of mathematics, geometry, acoustics, and astronomy, which the maya possessed. As such, the temple is dedicated to the passage of time and the mayan calendars, each one of the decorative aspects of this pyramid has a correlation geometry or mathematics with at least a
The Throne 1 Piedras Negras, was located originally inside the main room of the palace on the Acropolis. The archaeologists who discovered it in 1932 determined that this throne was violently broken and scattered its fragments in ancient times. Such destruction seems to have been a result of the defeat suffered Piedras Negras to Yaxchilan
This is a scale model of it as would have been the Acropolis of the city of Piedras Negras, during the classic period. The model is inside the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Guatemala. The architecture of Black Stones, is considered among the most beautiful of the mayan cities of the Basin of
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The central figure is Pawaaj K’an Ahk, who is shown sitting on a throne of stone, whose backing is lined with the skins of jaguar and snake. Your faldellín is embroidered with representations of the god K’awiil and the “Beast of Mars,” symbols of power dynastic. Watercolor reconstructive Baker shows the ruler holding a spear,
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