InKend
Info on popular culture and everyday life
InKend
Info on popular culture and everyday life
Joya de Ceren, El Salvador’s Pompeii of the Americas, preserves an ordinary Maya farming village buried by volcanic ash around 600 CE.
Quirigua rebelled against Copan, capturing its king in 738 CE, then built Stela E, the tallest carved monument in the ancient Maya world.
El Mirador rose centuries before Tikal, raising La Danta, one of the largest pyramids ever built, deep in Guatemala’s Mirador Basin rainforest.
Tikal ruled the Peten rainforest for over a thousand years, building the Maya world’s tallest temples and rivaling Calakmul for regional power.
Tlatelolco was Tenochtitlan’s twin Aztec city, home to a marketplace that awed the conquistadors and the site of the empire’s final stand.
