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

Submitted by john_op_stap on Thursday, 31 October 2013  Page Views: 2734

Multi-periodSite Name: Aguateca Alternative Name: K'inich Witz
Country: Guatemala
NOTE: This site is 2.324 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Sayaxche
Latitude: 16.395290N  Longitude: 90.20463W
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
5

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john_op_stap visited on 29th Feb 2004 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 again, take a lancha boat from Sayaxche, for about 1 1/2 hour over the Petexbatun lake and the up then mangrove swamps, plenty of birdlife to see. Small site, few stuctures unearthed, but the trip there and the surroundings make up for that

Aguateca
Aguateca submitted by john_op_stap : Aguateca 29/02/04 Aguateca ruins being cleared Image copyright: john_op_stap (John Schelstraete), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient City in Petén. Although settled in the the Late Preclassic period (300 BC - AD 350). The center was occupied from about 200 AD. until about 800 AD when the city was invaded and partially sacked. The central city was completely abandoned around 830AD.

Together with the nearby Dos Pilas the twin capital to the short lived Petexbatun kingdom, the city was a main pawn in the endgame between Tikal and Calakmul on the eve of the Classical Era.

The sudden invasion left the densely populated city as one of the best preserved in the Maya world.

Some more info here and my full picset here.
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Aguateca
Aguateca submitted by john_op_stap : Aguateca 29/02/04 Aguateca, the Palace in a conservation stage. Image copyright: john_op_stap (John Schelstraete), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Aguateca submitted by john_op_stap : Aguateca 29/02/04 Aguateca Stela : His kingdom came crashing down, so did his stela. Note the picture on the Wikipedia page, it seems he is resurrected! Image copyright: john_op_stap (John Schelstraete), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Aguateca
Aguateca submitted by john_op_stap : Aguateca 29/02/04 Aguateca, entry from the lake through the gorge br>Image copyright: john_op_stap (John Schelstraete), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Aguateca by john_op_stap on Thursday, 31 October 2013
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Just before enemies attacked his city and burned it to the ground, Tahn Te’ K’inich, the last Maya ruler of the capital city of Aguateca in Guatemala, likely hid some of the royal family’s most valuable possessions— including jade ornaments, pyrite mirrors, and bones and shells inscribed with Mayan glyphs—in a palace storeroom. Among the precious artifacts and rubble, a team of archaeologists led by Takeshi Inomata found hundreds of thin ceramic pieces.

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