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The ‘Church’ of Chichen Itza is one of the buildings most colorful of the city. It is a small building, in the so-called nunnery quadrangle. The spaniards, seeing this part of the city associated with a convent and the building in the publication associated with a chapel (hence its name). The building is a perfect […]

This beautiful piece of classic maya represents a woman with face stoic, dressed according to the custom of his time. The back of the figurine shows a back flat, with openings for a whistle in the right shoulder and the back. His facial features exemplify the standards of idealized beauty maya. His forehead is high

The great pyramid is one of the structures most prominent of the archaeological site of Uxmal Is a pyramid very interesting in that it shares some physical similarities with the temples of the distant cities of Tikal or Palenque, in spite of having been built in later years; which seems to indicate that it was

The great pyramid is one of the structures most prominent of the archaeological site of Uxmal Is a pyramid very interesting in that it shares some physical similarities with the temples of the distant cities of Tikal or Palenque, in spite of having been built in later years; which seems to indicate that it was

After the extensive study of mayan civilization to the mid-NINETEENTH century created a myth about the maya: it was deduced that were a village of peaceful priests, observers of the sky and the cycles of time. It is said that developed in two main periods, called the old and the new empire, and that after

The tablet of the foliated cross is one of the finest mayan art that have been preserved. It tells the story of how K’inich Kan B ahlam, son of Pakal the great, taking the throne of palenque after the death of his father. For years it was thought that the board had a cross in

The maya were notable sculptors. With materials such as stone and plaster, created figures in relief, which were used as ornaments of its main buildings, stairs, columns and lintels. Almost all of the figures represented on the rulers and their lineages, as well as supernatural beings associated with major cosmic events and mythical. Many of

The rites of bloodshed were a very important part of the mayan cosmovision. During these rites the rulers cut any part of your body to make yourself bleed, then collected their blood in papers and burned in censers. Participants in these ceremonies experienced visions in which they communicated with the ancestors or gods, often for