Tikal
City of the Maya
Tauris Parke (Publisher)
Published in December 1992
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-1-85043-223-4 (ISBN)
Description
Tikal was one of the greatest cities of the Mayan Empire which covered large parts of Central America between the third and ninth centuries AD. This book aims to provide a portrait of Tikal as it was in its heyday and as it is now. In doing so, it describes the nature of Mayan society.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
colour illustrations, bibliography, chronology, index
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 215 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85043-223-4 (9781850432234)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
The thousand years of Tikal- Maya spring, after the volcano, golden age to fall, city in the jungle, feeding the multitude; the classic Maya - pyramids and palaces, the classic Yucatin styles, the plastic arts, the science of time, Maya writing, religion and society; the ruins of Tikal- the temple of the Great Jaguar, the three acropoli, along the four causeways; fall, revival and conquest - the fall of Tikal, Maya revival, the Spanish Conquest, early explorers, modern excavations.