| Author | Yaxuna to Coba sacbe |
davidmorgan
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|  Posted 08-10-2008 at 14:31
This shows up well on the higher rez areas of Google Earth:
You can easily see it crossing clearings here and here.
Might be worth trying to hike it!
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|  Posted 10-10-2008 at 00:28
How Do David....................
Can you give a bit more info. about what we're looking at? 
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| Posted 10-10-2008 at 05:12
David is showing us a 100 km roadway that runs between
this site, Yuxuna, http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=16556
to this site, Coba, http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=16553.
This sacbe (road) is still noticeable as a trail through the Yucatan landscape - very likely from its continued use long after the heyday of these Mayan cities.
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| Posted 10-10-2008 at 08:41
Bat 400............Thanks, I'm having a spot of bother with maps at the moment.
A small area repeated over and over etc.
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| Posted 14-10-2008 at 11:04
I'm having a hard time finding on the web any real information (and maps) about these Mayan roads.
At Yaxuna "several building complexes were rebuilt and reoriented to face the terminus of the great Coba sacbe" - The Ancient Maya by Robert J. Sharer.
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| Posted 20-10-2008 at 19:11
The sacbeob are marked on the 50MB .PDF file from these people, I realise now.
http://mayagis.smv.org/index.htm
There's one from Ake to Izamal as well.
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| Posted 17-11-2008 at 11:49
I can't afford this book: Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World by Charles D Trombold, it costs £100! It's got a chapter on Mayan sacbeob.
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| Posted 17-11-2008 at 12:59
The Ake to Izamal sacbe is now easy to make out on Google Earth:
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