Sentences with phrase «maya ceremonial sites»

The Mayflower Bocawina National Park was declared a national park in 2001 and has three minor Maya ceremonial sites: Mayflower, T'au Witz, and Maintzunum, near Silk Grass Creek.

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An ancient melting pot of diverse hunter - gatherers uniting to build ceremonial sites may have been the start of big Maya cities

Three plazas and thirteen structures mark the epicentre of this very important ceremonial site of ancient Maya civilization.

Your Cahal Pech host can arrange transport to this site by road or boat, but when you glimpse the largest Maya ceremonial center in the region with «more than 719 mapped structures» you'll be glad you made the effort.

The descendants of the ancient Maya that built the impressive pyramids, palaces, and ceremonial sites that dot the Belizean landscape, the Maya in Belize speak three different dialects: Kekchi (various spellings), Mopan, and the increasingly rare Yucatec.

Archaeologists believe the Maya used this area as a ritual blood - letting site because of the broken pottery, obsidian blades and another carved piece of slate scattered throughout this ceremonial area.

The site served as a Maya civic ceremonial center in the late terminal Classic periods to the Belize Valley region and Xunantunich's name means «stone woman» in the Maya language.

Located 35 miles from Belize City on the Old Northern Highway, Altun Ha (Rock Stone Water) is a great example of a Maya ceremonial and trading site.

The ATM Cave was a sacred ceremonial site for the ancient Maya — they considered it an opening to the underworld — and it still retains its spooky, spiritual atmosphere.

Hike and trek through the dense jungle and visit ancient Mayan sites such as Xunantunich, once a Maya ceremonial center.

A major Maya ceremonial center, and one of the countries larger excavated sites, the view from the largest pyramid El Castillo is remarkable.

The geology of Belize has created thousands of caves, many of which were used as sacred ceremonial sites by the ancient Maya that once ruled the country in the long centuries before the arrival of Europeans.