Megalithic Portal: Latest from Guatemala

Nixtun-Ch'ich'

bat400 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 18:39:06 GMT

The only Maya city with an urban grid may embody a creation myth. See Comments from Archaeology Magazine News.. Ancient Village or Settlement in Petén Department, GuatemalaThis Pre-Classic Maya site has an urban grid with fairly well ordered streets and avenues dated to around 800-400BC. This is one of the earliest urban grids in the Americas and was not built cover during either Classic or colonial periods when later construction and site occupation also took place.

Mapping Mayan: LiDAR Reveals Further Secrets of Classical Guatemalan Cities

bat400 — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 05:56:09 GMT

]]>Detailed aerial images reveal a remarkably ambitious transportation network consisting of 17 roads, as well and the infrastructure for agriculture and defense.. The results of LiDAR survey of 2,100-square kilometers surrounding Mayan sites in Guatemala's El Peten are revealing thousands of previously undocumented structures. Of major interest are structural features including irrigation and agricultural fields, and fortresses and linked watchtowers. The area mapped includes El Zotz and Tikal, where the survey may further expand the borders of this Mayan city-state.

Cival

davidmorgan — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 19:39:19 GMT

Ancient Maya Settlement in Guatemala

Ceibal

bat400 — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 09:34:08 GMT

]]>Child sacrifices of the Ceibal Mayan buried with "supernatural" obsidian. See comment and video on our page. . Ancient Town in Peten. With one of the longest occupation sequences of all Mayan sites, Ceibal was first occupied in 800 BC, and reached its peak (~50 AD) in the Classic Period. The city was abandoned during the 6thC, but quickly re-occupied until its final abandonment in the 9thC.

Nojpetén

XIII — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 17:06:21 GMT

]]>Nojpetén (also known as Tayasal) was the capital city of the Itza Maya kingdom, located on an island in Lake Petén Itzá in the modern department of Petén in northern Guatemala. The island is now occupied by the modern town of Flores, the capital of the Petén department.

San Bartolo

davidmorgan — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:18:03 GMT

]]>A Maya city in the jungle of the Petén region of Guatemala. Some of the oldest Mayan frescoes dating from the 1st century BCE have been found here since excavations began in 2003.

Tak'alik Ab'aj

bat400 — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 05:21:59 GMT

]]>Guatemala finds grave of king who ushered in Mayan rule from an Olmec origin.. Ancient Town in Guatemala.Tak'alik Ab'aj was occupied from 900 BC through 1000 AD and has both Olmec and Mayan features. The latest structures are representative of the the Preclassical and Classic Periods (200BC - 200 AD, and 200 AD - 1000 AD.)

Why Build Such Huge Monuments? - “Dialogue of Civilizations

coldrum — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 19:25:02 GMT

]]>The nature of civilization and how to view “the past as a window to the future.”. The “Dialogue of Civilizations” conference in Guatemala brought together archaeologists studying five ancient cultures to discuss their similarities and differences and what they can tell us about human society as a whole.

Nakbe

john_op_stap — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:59:24 GMT

]]>Nakbe is a site within the El Mirador National Park, only about 13 km south east of the site of El Mirador (see nearby sites list). They have a shared history, dating back to about 1400 BC and are connected by a sacred walkway or Sacbe, which even today makes the jungle stroll a walk in the park.

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Guatemala City)

john_op_stap — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 21:27:12 GMT

]]>Museum in Guatemala.Sharing to honour with the Museum of Popol Vuh, this might be the reason why a country with so much archaeology has so little to show. From recent data I can see they have expanded their exhibition drastically from the time of my visit in 2004, and one can only hope they keep on expanding.

Zaculeu

john_op_stap — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:25:58 GMT

]]>"whatever this building is supposed to have been, I have not succeeded in figuring it out. Any ideas?". A Mam Mayan site, occupied from the early Classic till the late Post Classic, actually till the Spanish Conquistadors laid siege to it, bringing the Mam Kingdom to it's knees by starving them out.

Tecumanchu

john_op_stap — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 22:46:33 GMT

]]>2 little pyramid mounds, of no importance. This mountainous area is sprayed with little places as worship like these, of which most probably date to the late post Classic.

La Florida

john_op_stap — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:24:49 GMT

]]>A cluster of some homesteads. Part of the constructions have characteristics of Pre Classic Maya, the wider building is Post Classic. Apparently for normal houses they used thatched roofs, so they were able to build wider than with the corbelled vault technique.

Cancuen

john_op_stap — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 04:59:19 GMT

]]>Ancient Town in El Petén.Cancuén is a Classic era Maya city in the south of El Petén at the start of the navigable course of the Rio Pasión. Longtime disregarded for excavation as there are no pyramids, thus thought of as a minor site. Recent excavation however has found it must contain the biggest Maya palace ever build, plus a wealth of inscriptions adding new pages to the Mayan history of the late Classic turmoil.

Aguateca

john_op_stap — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:14:50 GMT

]]>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.