Compton's Atlas of the Ancient World/Compton's Atlas of the Ancient World.iso/pc/media/ca/ma/iw/camaiw10.cap

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1    0    Temple pyramids at the important Maya centre of Palenque.
2    0    King Stormy-Sky, depicted on a stele gloriously recounting the victory of his grandfather, Great-Jaguar-Paw, over Uaxactun.
3    0    Glyphs labelling and commenting upon scenes and individuals were an integral feature of Maya art.
4    0    Mayan calendar cycles - 13 numbers, 20 day names and 18 months - interlocked in the 52 year Calendar Round.
5    0    Cross-section of the raised field system: silt from cleaning the drainage channels made the fields highly fertile.
6    0    Lady Xoc, queen of Yaxchilan, draws a cord set with thorns through her tongue: her blood drips onto the bark paper below.
7    0    Reconstruction of a Maya house platform: residential buildings arranged round a central court, raised on a platform.
8    0    A temple pyramid at Palenque, one of many architectural treasures discovered in the jungles of Mesoamerica.
10    0    A warrior equipped in Teotihuacan style with an atlatl (spear-thrower), depicted on a stele at Tikal.
11    0    The main temple complex at the early Maya ceremonial centre of Mirador.
12    0    The ancestors of Palenque's king Pacal are depicted on the elaborately decorated lid of his sarcophagus.
12    1    The ancestors of Palenque's king Pacal are depicted on the elaborately decorated lid of his sarcophagus.
13    0    The lid of Pacal's sarcophagus.  In the centre the king is shown descending the World Tree into the grim Underworld.
14    0    Picture showing a prisoner, from Calakmul.
15    0    After the collapse of the Maya, the centres in their heartland were soon swallowed up by the jungle.
9    0    Objects like this elaborately chipped erratic flint show the skill of Maya craftsmen.