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    footprint. Piedras Negras is located in the Southern Lowlands of Guatemala, very close to the border with Mexico. Piedras Negras is located along the...
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  • Piedras Negras may refer to: Piedras Negras, Coahuila, a city in the state of Coahuila, Mexico Piedras Negras Municipality, a municipality in Mexico,...
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  • 26, 757), also known as Ruler 4, was an ajaw of Piedras Negras, an ancient Maya settlement in Guatemala. He ruled during the Late Classic Period, from...
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    hieroglyphic inscriptions on the stelae of the Classic period site of Piedras Negras played a key part in the decipherment of the script, with stelae being...
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  • Kʼinich Yat Ahk II (category Kings of Piedras Negras)
    akh]), also known as Ruler 7, was the last ajaw of Piedras Negras, an ancient Maya settlement in Guatemala. He ruled during the Late Classic Period, from...
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  • Monumental Architecture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala: Time, History, and Meaning. Mayab 11:40-56 Piedras Negras, Guatemala Expedition Records. Penn Museum...
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    Nakbé Piedras Negras Quirigua Q'umarkaj Tikal Uaxactún Caribbean Sea Pacific Ocean Volcán de Agua Volcán de Fuego List of national parks of Guatemala Lists...
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    Kʼinich Yoʼnal Ahk I (category Kings of Piedras Negras)
    Ruler 1 (died February 3, 639 AD), was an ajaw of Piedras Negras, an ancient Maya settlement in Guatemala. He ruled during the Late Classic Period, from...
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    Haʼ Kʼin Xook (category Kings of Piedras Negras)
    ʃoːk]), also known as Ruler 6, was an ajaw of Piedras Negras, an ancient Maya settlement in Guatemala. He ruled during the Late Classic Period, from...
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  • Yoʼnal Ahk III (category Kings of Piedras Negras)
    Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806188362. Pitts, Mark (2011). A Brief History of Piedras Negras as Told by...
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    Itzam Kʼan Ahk I (category Kings of Piedras Negras)
    kʼan ahk]), also known as Ruler 2, was an ajaw of Piedras Negras, an ancient Maya settlement in Guatemala. He ruled during the Late Classic Period, from...
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    she took part in two seasons of an archaeological expedition to Piedras Negras (Guatemala). In 1939, she made scientific trips to Copán and Chichen Itza...
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    "Guardian of the Acropolis: The Sacred Space of a Royal Burial at Piedras Negras, Guatemala". Latin American Antiquity. 14 (4): 449–468. doi:10.2307/3557578...
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    Yat Ahk I (category Kings of Piedras Negras)
    Yat Ahk I was the third king of Mayan city-state Piedras Negras in Guatemala. He is also known as Ah Cauac Ah K'in, and by the English translation of...
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  • Piedras Negras, Guatemala. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 9. ISBN 9780806188362. Piedras Negras Ruler A at Mesoweb Piedras Negras Ruler A Piedras Negras...
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  • the period 659 BC – 650 BC. Occupation begins at Maya site of Piedras Negras, Guatemala. First evidence of written Olmec language from the New World....
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    a text from the nearby northern kingdom of Yokib (modern-day Piedras Negras, Guatemala). Panel 3 of this city, largely regarded as one of the most beautiful...
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  • Kʼinich Yoʼnal Ahk II (category Kings of Piedras Negras)
    29, 664), also known as Ruler 3, was the ajaw (king) of Piedras Negras, a Maya city in Guatemala. He reigned from January 2, 687, until 729. Because his...
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    calendar have been studied. In one of these cases, Stela 11 in Piedras Negras, Guatemala, a sacrificed boy can be seen. Other scenes of sacrificed boys...
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    (2014). Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 9. ISBN 9780806188362. Piedras Negras Ruler B v t e...
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    Greek poet Tyrtaeus 650s BC: Occupation begins at Maya site of Piedras Negras, Guatemala. 657 BC: Cypselus becomes the first tyrant of Corinth. 656 BC:...
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  • lighthouse in California Piedra del Águila Dam, in Patagonia, Argentina Piedras Negras, Coahuila, a city in Mexico Piedras Negras (Maya site), an archaeological...
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  • (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Piedras Negras throne 1, with heads restored, Late Classic (Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala) Back of throne, Late...
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    beginnings of the Maya calendar. In one of these cases, Stele 11 in Piedras Negras, Guatemala, a sacrificed boy can be seen. Other scenes of sacrificed boys...
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  • Bone Objects among the Classic Maya as seen from the S-Sector of Piedras Negras, Guatemala. Brown University. pp. 56–63. Garcia-Kutzbach, Abraham (July 1976)...
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    thousand ethnological items. In October 2021, a fragment of stela 9 of Piedras Negras was returned to the museum by a private collector in France. Stolen...
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    Ahk II, the ajaw (or king) of Piedras Negras, Maya city in Guatemala. Her image appears on stelae 1 and 3 of Piedras Negras. She is also referenced on a...
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    powerful Maya states along the course of the Usumacinta River, with Piedras Negras as its major rival. Architectural styles in subordinate sites in the...
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    University), devoted to drawings and photographs of sculpture from Piedras Negras, Guatemala. He co-authored Palenque: Eternal City of the Maya (Thames and...
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  • in Zhoukoudian, China. University of Pennsylvania project at Piedras Negras, Guatemala begins (lasts to 1939). Excavation of tomb of Hemaka at Saqqara...
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