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Xupa
Xupa is an archaeological Maya site located near the Chacamax river in the municipality of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico. Xupá was a Maya city and ceremonial center from the Classic period located on a strategic area over the Chancalá valley that was conquered as a province by the kingdom of Palenque. The architecture and main temple of Xupá are refinedly decorated with great detail and show a remarkable influence with the Temple of the Cross complex located at Palenque. History The ruins of Xupa were first discovered and explored by Teobert Maler in 1898, giving an early conclusion that Xupa was a major site with the same level of importance as Palenque but later explorations found that the site didn't have an extensive area. Maler managed to enter the Temple of Xupa where he found a stone slab showing a highly detailed Palenque art style incised carving of a woman wearing a ceremonial dress with a deity statue on her back and holding and altar. Frans Blom made an expediti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Sites
This list of Maya sites is an alphabetical listing of a number of significant archaeological sites associated with the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The peoples and cultures which comprised the Maya civilization spanned more than 2,500 years of Mesoamerican chronology, Mesoamerican history, in the Maya Region of southern Mesoamerica, which incorporates the present-day nations of Guatemala and Belize, much of Honduras and El Salvador, and the southeastern states of Mexico from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec eastwards, including the entire Yucatán Peninsula. Throughout this region, many hundreds of Maya sites have been documented in at least some form by archaeological surveys and investigations, while the numbers of smaller/uninvestigated (or unknown) sites are so numerous (one study has documented over 4,400 Maya sites)Witschey and Brown (2005) that no complete archaeological list has yet been made. The listing which appears here is necessarily incomplete, howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
