Megalithic Portal: Latest from Campeche, Mexico

Miramar

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:33:46 GMT

. Ancient Settlement in Campeche.Dating to Classic and Post Classic periods. Quarried for stone in 19th - 20th centuries. A few monuments with sculpture and hieroglyphic texts are still visible. 100 meters north of the main structures there is a semi-dry cave (known as Miramar, Actun Huachap, or Huachabi.)

Uxul.

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:33:45 GMT

]]>Tomb of Mayan 'Prince', Bonn archaeologists find tomb in Uxul Royal Palace - see comment. . Ancient Settlement in Campeche, Mexico. During its heyday in the Classical period (250 to 900 A.D.) Uxul was located in a densely populated area between the big Mayan cities of El Mirador to the south and Calakmul to the northeast. It had trade connections as far as present-day southern Guatemala and the Central Mexican Plateau.

First Chemical Evidence of Tobacco in Mayan Container

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:06:18 GMT

]]>Two-and-a-half-inch wide and high clay vessel from 700AD bears Mayan hieroglyphics, reading �the home of his/her tobacco.� . A researchers teamed up to use ultra-modern chemical analysis technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic to analyze ancient Mayan pottery for proof of tobacco use in the ancient culture. Dmitri Zagorevski, director of the Proteomics Core in the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) at Rensselaer, and Jennifer Loughmiller-Newman, a doctoral candidate at the University at Albany, have discovered the first physical evidence of tobacco in a Mayan container.

Calakmul

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:43:52 GMT

]]>Colorful Murals Show Common Activities of a Mayan Market Place. A Unique View, Lost until now.. Calakmul evidences an uninterrupted architectural sequence which extended across fourteen centuries (550 BCE - 900 CE). Its outstanding architecture includes figures sculpted in stone and modelled in stucco; other noteworthy features of the site are the great quantity of stelae and dated monuments, upon which the history of Calakmul's rulers is recorded.

Balamk�

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:47:31 GMT

]]>. One of the stucco jaguars on substructure I-A's frieze (in the Central group) gave this archaeological site its name "Jaguar's Temple". Three architectural groups - the South, Central and North, constitute the site core. Its occupation seems to date from 300 BCE, although some ceramics dated between 600 and 300 BCE have been found.

Xpuhil

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:05:29 GMT

]]>. This city was rediscovered at the end of the 1930s. Since then, it has been known as Xpuhil, a Yucatec Maya place name which refers to the type of vegetation which grows around the principal waterhole at the site, which is a species of cattail [bullrush].

Hormiguero

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:43:38 GMT

]]>. Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico.A small Mayan settlement which peaked from about 600-850 CE (the Late Classic). Two amazing buildings have been excavated - Structure II with the typical Rio Bec towers with a wonderful sacred monster mouth doorway between them, and Structure V, a delightful temple in the depths of the jungle with an ornate monster mouth at the top.

Chicann�

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:38:07 GMT

]]>. Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico.Chicann� was built at the base of the Yucat�n Peninsular. Its builders took advantage of a slight natural elevation to construct several groups of structures which served as rooms and enclosures for carrying out ritual ceremonies.

Becan

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:19:34 GMT

]]>. Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico

Dzibilnocac

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:02:57 GMT

]]>. A Chenes Mayan city dating from the Mid Preclassic period (500 - 100 BCE), the small fraction of it you can see today is Late Classic (600 - 800 CE). Its name means "painted vault".