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Forgotten World Wonders The Mayan Temples of Tikal |
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The Maya ruins of Tikal are deep into the rain forest of Guatemala. From air only one handful of temples and palaces summits by the treetops. The stone mason works weathered. Large places are covered with Moos and enormous artificial lakes are devoured of jungle. The only inhabitants are wild animals and birds. But before 1200 years, Tikal was one of the most important cities of the large and great Maya civilization, which extended today's southern Mexico, Belize and Guatemala in far parts. Tikal was the homeland of approximately 100,000 humans. Reetgedeckten yards and fields would have so far the eye extended...
The Maya world prospered for nearly 2000 year. Without the employment car wheel or tools made of metal the Maya solid buildings of stones was established to that. They were converted scientists. They had pursue one sun year with 365 days and one of the few still received old Maya books contain tables of the darkness. Of observatories, as in Chichen the Itza, it pursues the continuation of the war of stars, Venus. They developed their own mathematics, with a base to twenty and had even a concept of zero. They had to write also their own system.
They were so stable and established that them also only one word for a 400-Jahres-Zeitraum. Maya society was pulsating, but it could be also, brutally. It was strictly hierarchically and deeply spirituell. Humans were sacrificed, in order to calm the Gods. The elite also tortured. Male Maya rulers perforated the foreskin of their penis and the Mrs. their tongues, obviously in hope on food for the Gods, which needs from human blood.

But in the ninth century the world was placed on the head. Many of the large centers such as Tikal were deserted. The holy temples and palaces, the domestic refuse became left into the once untouched buildings shortly after house, a few occupation gutters. Even if it left, Tikal was always given up - the Maya civilization never again recovered. Only a fraction of the Maya humans the Spanish conquerers survived in 16. Century in the face. For decades the archaeologists have in the search for an explanation for the Maya collapse. Many theories were submitted, which from war and the invasion to the migration, diseases and cross-country-build. Many believe, the truth can with a combination of these and other factors lie.

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