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<< Our Photo Pages >> Dos Pilas - Ancient Village or Settlement in Guatemala

Submitted by john_op_stap on Sunday, 13 October 2013  Page Views: 2436

Multi-periodSite Name: Dos Pilas
Country: Guatemala
NOTE: This site is 26.689 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Sayaxche  Nearest Village: Las Pozas
Latitude: 16.445833N  Longitude: 90.295833W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Dos Pilas
Dos Pilas submitted by john_op_stap : Dos Pilas, general view of a plaza (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Guatemala

A lovely site, Classical period with some excellent Maya stone art to see on several stelae, but most impressive on the stairs of some buildings.

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Dos Pilas submitted by john_op_stap : Mayan Sites - Dos Pilas 01/03/04 Dos Pilas, stela detail Image copyright: john_op_stap (John Schelstraete), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dos Pilas
Dos Pilas submitted by john_op_stap : Dos Pilas, stair fragment (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dos Pilas
Dos Pilas submitted by john_op_stap : Dos Pilas (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Dos Pilas by john_op_stap on Thursday, 31 October 2013
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Re: Dos Pilas by john_op_stap on Thursday, 31 October 2013
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Maya Hieroglyphs Recount "Giant War"

Newly translated inscriptions at an ancient pyramid in Guatemala suggest that the Maya civilization, at its peak, was dominated by two powerful city-states that engaged in a protracted "superpower" struggle.

The evidence comes from hieroglyphs on a building at Dos Pilas, a relatively small but strategically important Maya kingdom now partly obscured in dense rain forest.

The inscriptions, which appear on the staircase of a Maya pyramid dating from the seventh century, are one of the most extensive Maya texts ever found.


The texts show that Dos Pilas played a major role in fierce and bloody warfare that raged back and forth between the major Maya cities of Tikal and Calakmul for a century, until Tikal finally prevailed in about A.D. 695.

The inscriptions offer strong evidence supporting a theory proposed a decade ago by two Maya experts who challenged the prevailing belief that conflicts in the region were mainly local clashes between independent city-states. In their alternative interpretation, Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube proposed that these campaigns reflected a larger struggle between major powers.

Arthur Demarest, a professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee who organized the translation of the newly revealed glyphs, said their content has convinced him, after years of skepticism, that Martin and Grube were right.

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