• The Mayan architecture of the Maya civilization spans across several thousands of years, several eras of political change, and architectural innovation...
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    also noted for its art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system. The Maya civilization developed in the Maya Region, an area that today...
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    specifically to the Maya civilization of southern Mexico and Central America, in practice, this revivalist style frequently blends Maya architectural and artistic...
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    Valley of Oaxaca (with the yagul archeological site) Maya architecture Mayan Revival architecture Maya city Buildings and structures in Mesoamerica Triadic...
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  • the Spanish when the latter first arrived. Many temples from the Maya architecture have features oriented to celestial events. In 46 BC Julius Caesar...
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    Maya Ying Lin (Chinese: 林瓔; born October 5, 1959) is an American architect, designer and sculptor. Born in Athens, Ohio to Chinese immigrants, she attended...
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    San Bartolo is a small pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site located in the Department of Petén in northern Guatemala, northeast of Tikal and roughly...
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    in Maya culture was the ritual offering of nourishment to the gods and goddesses. Blood was viewed as a potent source of nourishment for the Maya deities...
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    Puuc (redirect from Puuc architecture)
    Mexican state of Yucatán and a Maya architectural style prevalent in that region. The word puuc is derived from the Maya term for "hill". Since the Yucatán...
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  • of two powerful states that rival later Classic Maya city-states for scale and monumental architecture, Kaminaljuyu in the highlands and El Mirador in...
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    The Maya ruins of Belize include a number of well-known and historically important pre-Columbian Maya archaeological sites. Belize is considered part...
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    that by the Preclassic Maya (1000 B.C., approximately 3,000 years ago) they were building pyramidal-plaza ceremonial architecture. The earliest monuments...
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    El Castillo, Chichen Itza (category Maya architecture)
    pre-Columbian Maya civilization sometime between the 8th and 12th centuries AD, the building served as a temple to the deity Kukulcán, the Yucatec Maya Feathered...
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    Chichen Itza (category Articles containing Yucatec Maya-language text)
    multitude of architectural styles, reminiscent of styles seen in central Mexico and of the Puuc and Chenes styles of the Northern Maya lowlands. The...
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  • personalized workflow. This was a particular influence in the open architecture of Maya, and partly responsible for its popularity in the animation industry...
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    The Maya Bridge at Yaxchilan was a suspension bridge believed to have been built by the Maya across the Usumacinta River, Chiapas, Mexico. If so, it would...
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  • Ancient Maya art comprises the visual arts of the Maya civilization, an eastern and south-eastern Mesoamerican culture made up of a great number of small...
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  • large-scale architectural construction at the primary urban centers of the Classic Period. Although termed a collapse, it did not mark the end of the Maya civilization...
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    Roof comb (category Maya architecture)
    and 900 AD. Recent[when?] deciphering of Maya hieroglyphs has brought new understanding to their architecture; these pictographic symbols tell historians...
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    buildings, and step pyramid temples. While most of the architecture and sculptures are in the Puuc Maya style, some show Chenes elements. The site had a number...
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    Tikal Temple I (category Maya architecture)
    temple is surmounted by a characteristic roof comb, a distinctive Maya architectural feature. Building Temple I on the eastern side of the Great Plaza...
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    Corbel arch (category Maya architecture)
    historical/regional architectural styles, particularly in that of the Maya civilization. The prevalence of this spanning technique for entrances and vaults in Maya architecture...
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    Temple of the Inscriptions (category Maya architecture)
    The Temple of the Inscriptions (Classic Maya: Bʼolon Yej Teʼ Naah (Mayan pronunciation: [ɓolon jex teʔ naːh]) "House of the Nine Sharpened Spears") is...
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    Vision Serpent (category Maya legendary creatures)
    prevalent in bloodletting ceremonies, in Maya religious practices, Maya jewelry, pottery and their architecture. Many have attempted to explain the manifestation...
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    Ancient Maya graffiti are a little-studied area of folk art of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. Graffiti were incised into the stucco of interior...
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    The traditional Maya or Mayan religion of the extant Maya peoples of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and the Tabasco, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Campeche...
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    Like other Mesoamerican peoples, the traditional Maya recognize in their staple crop, maize, a vital force with which they strongly identify. This is clearly...
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    Tomb of the Red Queen (category Maya architecture)
    and two servants, located inside Temple XIII in the ruins of the ancient Maya city of Palenque, now the Palenque National Park, in the southern Mexican...
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    the Mayas and Aztecs, during a period extending from approximately the 8th century to around 1860 CE. It is found in mural paintings on architectural buildings...
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    Palenque (category Articles containing Yucatec Maya-language text)
    Copán, but it contains some of the finest architecture, sculpture, roof comb and bas-relief carvings that the Mayas produced. Much of the history of Palenque...
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