From: Okenwa R. Nwosu, M.D. <okenwanwosu@yahoo.com>
Date: 21 July 2011 22:51
Subject: [NaijaPolitics] RENDEVOUS WITH THE RUINS OF MAYAN CIVILIZATION
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Main entrance to ruins at the ancient city center containing a pyramid, temple, ball park etc |
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This pyramid was built between 10th-14th Century AD. It has 90 steps for ascending to its top |
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Western elevation of the magnificent structure built in limestone which is abundant in the area |
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The sweltering heat and high humidity make it hard to keep one's clothes on. |
Umuibe,
My family and I joined a group that traveled from Cancun, Mexico to the world-renown Mayan ruins at Chichen-Itza located in the southern Mexican state of Yucatan. The 200 kilometer bus ride from Cancun gave us a taste of the wild open spaces of northern end of Central America; home of Mayan people whose ancient ruins can also be found in Honduras, El Salvador, Belize and Guatemala.
The ancient Mayans were great architects, astronomers and artists. They independently developed their own hieroglyphs and wrote volumes about their great civilization. The entirety of these writings were gathered and summarily destroyed by their Spanish conquerors who obviously made no sense out of them. The area is still populated by descendants of ancient Mayans who are still capable of creating very marvelous artwork in stone, metal as well as animal and plant parts.
The pyramid in photos, unlike the Egyptian counterpart, is not a burial chamber for their supreme leader. It is actually an astronomical timepiece situated at the town center for tracking movement of the heavenly bodies and seasons of the year.
Photos were taken last Sunday (July 17, 2011).
Okenwa.
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