Altar from culture teotihuacan, on the gorgeous heart of what has become MexicoHe was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, in the city center Mayan Culture, showing interaction between two societies, Monday Monday.
The huge city state of Tikala, whose visible temples still stand in the jungle, fights for centuries with the Kaanul dynasty for the dominance of the Sacred May.
Further north in Mexico, just ahead of today’s day Mexico CityTeotihuacan – “The city of gods” or “a place where people become gods” – is the most famous for the twin Temples the sun and the moon. In fact, he was a large city that placed over 100,000 inhabitants and covered about 8 square kilometers (20 square kilometers).
Still mysterious city was one of the largest in the world at the top is between 100 before the new era and ads 750. But it was abandoned before the Azteča rise in the 14th century. Century.
Lorena Paiz, an archaeologist who led the discovery, said that the theootician altar was believed to be used for victims, “especially children”.
“The remains of three children who are not older than 4 years are found on three sides of the altar,” said Paiz to the ass.
“Teotihuacan were traders who traveled throughout the country (Guatemala),” Paiz said. “The Teotihuacan housing complexes were houses with rooms and in central altars; that is what is the abode he was found, with the altar with a digit, which represents the stormpox.”
It took archaeologists 1½ years to detect the altar in residence and analyze him before the announcement.
Edwin Román, leading the Archaeological Project of the South Tikal in the Park, said the discovery shows socio-political and cultural interaction between the elite tikal and theological interaction between 300 and 500 ads
Romhan said that the discovery also intensifies the idea that Tikal was a cosmopolitan center at the time, where people visited from other cultures, which are their significance that they consider the center of cultural convergence.
María Belén Méndez, archaeologist who was not involved in the project, said the discovery confirms “that there was a mutual connection between both cultures and what their relations with their gods and heavenly bodies were.”
“We see the victim’s question exists in both cultures. It was a practice; not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting to heavenly bodies,” she said.
The altar is immediately over the yard (1 meter) across the east to west and almost 2 castles (2 meters) from north to south. It is a yard (1 meter) high and covered with limestone.
The population where there was anthropomorphic figures with red tones, a detail from the Teotihuacan culture, according to the Ministry’s statement.
Tikal National Park is about 325 miles (525 kilometers) north of City of GuatemalaAnd the place of detection is kept and there are no plans to open the public.