TIKAL, a City of the Ancient Maya Civilization

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• Jamal 86

  22 December 2017

  The Mayan civilization has settled in much of Central America, now known as Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and five southern states of Mexico: Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Yucatan. Founded in the pre-classical period (about 2000 BC to 250 AD), according to the chronology of Central America, many Mayan cities reached their highest level of development during the classical period (approximately 250 m to 900 m) and continued During the post-classic until the arrival of Spaniards. They had a civilization that dates back about 3000 years. During that long time, hundreds of dialects were spoken in those lands, from which 44 different Malay languages ​​were born. It was known as the only civilization in the development of the written language in the Americas in pre-Columbian times, as well as the art, architecture, mathematics systems and folklore of the ancient Mayans to the history of one of the most important Central American cultures in pre-Columbian times because it has an important scientific and astronomical legacy Worldwide. Their civilization has contributed many advantages to other civilizations in Central America because of the great interaction and dissemination of the culture that characterized the region. Progress, such as writing, engraving, and calendaring with the Mayans, has not only arisen but has been fully developed. The influence of that civilization can be detected in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Western El Salvador as far away as central Mexico, more than 1,000 km (620 miles) from the Mayan region. Architectural and artistic traces of the Maya were found outside the area and are believed to be due to trade and cultural exchange.
  
  The Mayan people did not disappear completely at the time of the decline of the classical period nor with the arrival of the Spanish invasion and colonization of the Americas, where the Mayans are now the majority of the population of all Mayan areas and have maintained the distinctive traditions and beliefs that are the result of the fusion of ideas and cultures for pre-Columbian and post- Invasion. At present millions of people speak different Maya languages.
  
  The Mayan literature illustrates the life of this culture. Examples include the play "Raphael Atchi" written in the language of Atchi, which was announced by UNESCO in 2005 as a masterpiece of the intangible oral heritage of mankind, and of the literary works of Popul Fuh for historical legends. . What was destroyed by the Spanish invasion is a model of the pre-Columbian civilization that is estimated at 3,000 years of ancient history.

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• Alvydas V.

  03 January 2017

  Ruins of Mayan civilization in the jungle !

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• Mahavira Alexander Straub

  13 November 2016

  Breathtakingly beautiful Mayan Pyramids. Worth every Moment and every cent spent to get there!!!

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• Emanuele Noseda

  19 August 2016

  Beautiful! The work that has been done to give life again to these huge monuments is as amazing as the size of the ancient city of Tikal!

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• Kip Schmidt

  29 April 2016

  Amazing place! So worth the trip, we stayed for 2 days, explored every single ruin available, watched the sunrise and sunset, one of our favorite places wet visited in Guatemala. I'd recommend 2 days, get there after sunrise, explore the ruins until sunset and watch it from the sunset temple paying the extra to go to the "sunset side" of the temple is kind optional, given that the visible find from a top of it aren't facing the sunset, but if you're there..might as well, although the ruins worth viewing from this location are on the other side facing the East. Stay the night and get up early to go see the sunrise, this is the truly magical experience you NEED to see while you're here. I opted to try it on my own without a tour or guide, which ended up getting me lost, it's very confusing pre-dawn, and PITCH BLACK. In addition to that, there are wild animals here, it's the jungle, howler monkeys going nuts, jaguars aren't common but have been seen, snakes, scorpions, all sorts of creepy crawlies. I paid for entrance, but when I showed up without a guide for the sunrise, the guards told me I was not allowed to use any type of light, flashlight, headlamp nothing. I don't know why, if it's an actual rule, or just to discourage people from going alone to encourage them to spend money on a guide, but I obeyed until I was out of sight from them, then turned one on and still got lost.and scared. Maybe go with the guide if it's important to you, I still saw a great sunrise from my own private temple, away from the higher crowd at the sunrise temple, but I was rushed and didn't have a choice by the time the sun was coming up, and didn't see it from where I wanted to. I still had a greatly unique experience, maybe it was meant to be, because I was the only one on top of the temple I ended up at, and it was breathtaking!

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• Wilson Barahona

  24 March 2014

  Majnifico tikal peten jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

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