Tikal Temple IV is a Mesoamerican pyramid in the ruins of the ancient Maya city of Tikal in modern Guatemala. It was one of the tallest and most voluminous...
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About 3,000 people participated in the event. Tikal Temple II Tikal Temple III Tikal Temple IV Tikal Temple V List of tallest structures built before the...
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Tikal Temple V is the name given by archaeologists to one of the major pyramids at Tikal. Tikal is one of the most important archaeological sites of the...
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Tikal (/tiˈkɑːl/; Tik'al in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest...
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Tikal Temple II (or the Temple of the Masks, alternatively labelled by archaeologists as Tikal Structure 5D-2) is a Mesoamerican pyramid at the Maya archaeological...
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of the Magician at Uxmal Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque Tikal Temple I Tikal Temple II Tikal Temple IV Tikal Temple V List of tallest structures...
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Yikʼin Chan Kʼawiil (redirect from Tikal Ruler B)
locations, and likely candidates as mortuary shrines, include Tikal Temple IV and Tikal Temple VI. The monuments and texts associated with Yikʼin Chan Kʼawiil...
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pyramids Pyramid of the Magician at Uxmal Tikal Temple I Tikal Temple II Tikal Temple III Tikal Temple IV Tikal Temple V All information on the piers was taken...
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El Castillo, Chichen Itza (redirect from Temple of Kukulkán)
pyramids Pyramid of the Magician at Uxmal Tikal Temple I Tikal Temple II Tikal Temple III Tikal Temple IV Tikal Temple V Šprajc, Ivan; Sánchez Nava, Pedro Francisco...
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contains the ancient Mayan city of Tikal and the surrounding tropical forests, savannas, and wetlands. In 1979, Tikal National Park was declared as a World...
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Palenque: Temple of the Inscriptions San Andrés, El Salvador Tazumal Tikal: Tikal Temple I; Tikal Temple II; Tikal Temple III; Tikal Temple IV; Tikal Temple V;...
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Maya civilization (section Pyramids and temples)
when Tikal became the most powerful city in the central lowlands. Tikal's great rival was Calakmul, another powerful city in the Petén Basin. Tikal and...
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Guatemala; it covers an area six times as large as that covered by Tikal Temple IV, which is the largest pyramid at that city. The three superstructures...
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Twin-pyramid complex (category Tikal)
"twin-pyramid complex" to describe them. Tikal Group L (also known as Group 5B-1) was situated to the south of Tikal Temple IV but was demolished in antiquity...
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clay. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mesoamerican pyramids. Locogringo.com: Pyramids[dead link] Amazing Temples and Pyramids - Getting Around...
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El Zotz (section Five Temples Group (Group 3))
from Tikal, it appears to have taken its place in the larger political rivalry between Tikal and Calakmul and to have aligned itself with Tikal's great...
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Pyramid of the Magician (redirect from Temple of the Magician)
Mesoamerican pyramids Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque Tikal Temple I Tikal Temple II Tikal Temple III Tikal Temple IV Tikal Temple V Research & Exploration...
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Maya monarchs (section Tikal)
One of the ways to do this was to build a temple or pyramid. Tikal Temple I is a good example. This temple was built during the reign of Yikʼin Chan Kʼawiil...
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Calakmul (section Calakmul vs. Tikal)
which had previously been a vassal of Tikal. In 562, according to a damaged text at Caracol, Sky Witness defeated Tikal itself and sacrificed its king Wak...
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Teotihuacan (redirect from Teutihuacan temples)
feather-serpent imagery associated with Teotihuacan culture, conquered Tikal, 600 miles away from Teotihuacan, removing and replacing the Maya king,...
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a shrine erected on a large palanquin (as on a wooden lintel from Tikal's Temple IV). The specific rituals engaged in by the king are only rudimentarily...
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Chichen Itza (redirect from Temple of the Warriors)
country List of Mesoamerican pyramids Maya–Toltec controversy at Chichen Itza Tikal Uxmal /tʃiːˈtʃɛn iːˈtsɑː/ chee-CHEN eet-SAH, Spanish: Chichén Itzá [tʃiˈtʃen...
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for which the exterior scenes are mostly shot on the Guatemalan site of Tikal. Yavin 4 can also be seen in the Rebels TV series, video games and comic...
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the sworn enemy of Tikal. Copán was firmly allied with Tikal and Calakmul used its alliance with Quiriguá to undermine Tikal's key ally in the south...
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Palenque (section Temple of the Inscriptions)
millimeters (85 in) of rain a year. Palenque is a medium-sized site, smaller than Tikal, Chichen Itza, or Copán, but it contains some of the finest architecture...
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early phases of the Early Classic, Waka’ was allied with Tikal. Waka’, however, later betrayed Tikal and forged a political alliance with Calakmul. This alliance...
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and Linton Satterthwaite, 'The Carved Wooden Lintels of Tikal'. Tikal Report No. 6, Tikal Reports Numbers 5-10, Museum Monographs, The University Museum...
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and had a long rivalry with Piedras Negras and at least for a time with Tikal; it was a rival of Palenque, with which Yaxchilan warred in 654. The site...
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Chennai) India 155 47.2 1896 Temple of the Great Jaguar (Tikal Pyramid I) Tikal Guatemala 154 47 740–750 Rajagopalaswamy Temple Mannargudi, Tamil Nadu India...
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