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    Tikal Temple 33 (referred to in archaeological reports as 5D-33) was a 33-metre-high (108 ft) ancient Maya funerary pyramid located in the North Acropolis...
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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 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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    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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    Tikal Temple III, also known as the Temple of the Jaguar Priest, was one of the principal temple pyramids at the ancient Maya city of Tikal, in the Petén...
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    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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    Tikal Temple VI (also known as the Temple of the Inscriptions and Structure 6F-27) is a Mesoamerican pyramid in the ruins of the major Maya city of Tikal...
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    Sihyaj Chan Kʼawiil II (category Monarchs of Tikal)
    associated with Sihyaj Chan Kʼawiil II are Stelae 1 and possibly Stelae 28. Tikal Temple 33 was Sihyaj Chan Kʼawiil II's funerary pyramid and his tomb was located...
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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 Šprajc, Ivan; Sánchez Nava, Pedro Francisco...
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  • Thumbnail for North Acropolis, Tikal
    The North Acropolis of the ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala is an architectural complex that served as a royal necropolis and was a centre for...
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    list of rulers of Tikal, a major city-state of the Maya Lowlands during the Classic period. Tikal is known to have had at least 33 rulers from the 1st...
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  • severely damaged during the earthquakes, today only its ruins survive. Tikal Temple 33 was destroyed in the 1960s by archaeologists to uncover earlier phases...
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    Itza, Uxmal and Tikal. In Judaism, the ancient Hebrew texts refer to a "sanctuary", "palace" or "hall" for each of the two ancient temples in Jerusalem,...
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  • Maya monarchs (section Tikal)
    his son took over Tikal. The dynastic line of Tikal, founded as early as the 1st century AD, spanned 800 years and included at least 33 rulers. Itzamnaaj...
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    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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    discoveries in the Mundo Perdido since the 1970s. The National Tikal Project (Proyecto Nacional Tikal) investigated the Mundo Perdido from 1979 until 1985, and...
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    feather-serpent imagery associated with Teotihuacan culture, conquered Tikal, 600 miles away from Teotihuacan, removing and replacing the Maya king,...
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  • textures. The greatest influences were the Tikal ruin in Guatemala and Machu Picchu in Peru. The character Tikal was inspired by Peru and took her name from...
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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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  • the Roman temple of Bziza by Harutune Kalayan. The final version of the 33-metre-high (108 ft) Tikal Temple 33 at the ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala...
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    Yax Nuun Ahiin I (category Monarchs of Tikal)
    Curl Nose (died 17 June 404?), was a 4th-century ruler of the Maya city of Tikal. His name, when transcribed, is YAX-?-AH:N, translated "First ? Crocodile"...
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    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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  • 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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    ritualistic needs. The Prasanna Virupaksha temple (underground temple) of Bukka and the Hazare Rama temple of Deva Raya are examples of Deccan architecture...
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    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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  • Siyaj Kʼakʼ ("Born of Fire"), who arrived at Tikal on 8.17.1.4.12 (c. 31 January 378). The king of Tikal, Chak Tok Ichʼaak I, died on the same day, suggesting...
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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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  • of radial pyramid temple was built by the Maya since the Late Preclassic with examples at many archaeological sites such as Tikal, Copán and Chichen...
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    auspices of the Tikal lord Wak chan K’awiil Also references the ch’ak event by Tikal against Caracol in AD 556, and the later defeat of Tikal in a star war...
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    in Tikal. This group held a parallel ceremony, and complained that the date has been used for commercial gain. In addition, before the main Tikal ceremony...
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