Sentences with phrase «as ceremonial sites»

Caves were used as ceremonial sites, as evidenced by the multitude of relics such as pottery shards.

Each person can climb into their own inflatable tube and float their way through this incredible cave system once used by the Mayans as a ceremonial site.

In addition to serving as a ceremonial site, the Kukulkan pyramid is perfectly symmetrical and was built to serve as a calendar and indicator of the seasons based off of the solar system.

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Reddit and other sites such as Slashdot have a system where users can be rewarded with «karma» points, but they have been largely ceremonial rather than involving actual usable currency.

In the site's remains, Anne Rapp and her husband, Claide Moraes, both students at the University of São Paulo, find evidence that hints at ceremonial procedures, priests, and perhaps a cottage industry of funerary artisans as well.

The first large - scale constructions were built, including settlement towers and walls (for example, Jericho) and ceremonial sites (such as Stonehenge).

You'll learn all about the site as we take a tour through the most important parts of the site such as the Temple of Three Windows, the ceremonial baths and the altar.

The walled city of Tulum was one of the most important centers of the Mayan culture as a commercial port, a home to kings, and a site of ceremonial rituals.

The ruins of more than 3,000 palaces, temples, ceremonial platforms, ball courts, and plazas dot this UNESCO World Heritage Site that once served as a religious, social, and political hub for the Mayan people.

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Barton Creek — This cave is 45 minutes from the town of San Ignacio, and was used by the ancient Mayans as a burial site and for ceremonial purposes.

The major buildings date from the 18th and 19th centuries and include monuments such as the Old Fort, built on the site of an earlier Portuguese church; the house of wonder, a large ceremonial palace built by Sultan Barghash; and the Old Dispensary.

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.

It takes 45 minutes approximately from San Ignacio to this exciting canoe trip into a remote cave formerly used by the ancient Mayans as a burial site and for ceremonial purposes.

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

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.

The Center's archive, which includes more than one hundred works on paper by British and Indian artists as well as manuscript materials, depicts landscapes, architectural sites, fl ora and fauna, scenes from everyday life, and diplomatic ceremonial events.

Their objectives often seem nebulous to outsiders: they typically identify and map important hunting and harvesting areas, as well as sacred historical and ceremonial sites, and of course forested areas — categorized by quality of cover and species.

Many methods of electronic signature lose this ceremonial effect — clicking «OK» on a web site somehow does not seem as weighty, though the legal effect can be just as serious.