Sentences with phrase «ceremonial sites in»

The Sacred Valley was the heart of the Inca's agricultural setting and an important ceremonial region, with the sacred sites of Cuzco at one end and Machu Picchu at the other and countless ceremonial sites in between.

If you prefer a site that's a little less mainstream, check out this map with information on all the other available ceremonial sites in the park.

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Once completed, the site will also include a ceremonial plaque indicating that the site has been rededicated in honor of the women of Queens.

MAYA HUB An ancient Maya site called La Corona (shown in this artist's illustration with a ceremonial center in the foreground) was a remote but key part of a large Classic Maya state, new research suggests.

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.

At the height of its cultural heyday, 12 stone masonry «great houses» and other structures were built there, along with a network of ceremonial roads linking Chaco with other Pueblo sites in the Southwest.

Archaeologists have found numerous ceremonial arrangements of whole turkeys, along with other animals, at sites in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico.

It is believed that sacha inchi acquired medicinal and ceremonial importance even before the rise of the Inca Empire, since the seeds depicted in pottery have also been found in Chachapoyas burial sites (circa 800 CE).

In May ARM and Fox news uncovered the largest Palo Mayombe ceremonial site that has ever been documented and investigated various domestic and exotic animal remains, including a human skull, were recovered.

Home to the Butchulla people who have lived on the island for over 5,500 years and originally called the island K'gari (meaning paradise), Fraser Island is filled with a rich cultural history, which is evident in its archaeological sites, middens and ceremonial bora rings.

People may have continued to live at or to visit the site in the postclassic period, even though the ceremonial centers were left to decay.

Recent studies indicate that a ceremonial site named Samabaj was located on an island about 500 metres (1,600 ft) long in Lake Atitlán.

In the classic period, the crowning period for the Mayan Civilization, the enormous sites of Caracol and El Pilar rose out of the forest and ceremonial centres like Xunantunich built lovely temples and pyramids.

Their heritage is evident in archaeological sites, midden heaps, ceremonial bora rings, and stone implements.

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.

It is a classic ceremonial center with a ball court, and there are two temples in this spectacular site, with El Castillo rising to 130 feet making it one of the tallest Mayan structures in the country.

As a result, the site must be regarded as a ceremonial centre in its own right.

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.

Add a tour to Xunantunich, another ancient site, where you can climb the 130 - foot tall El Castillo pyramid ruin and finish your immersion on a day trip to Barton Creek Cave by indulging in cave tubing or canoeing in addition to touring this ceremonial ruin.

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.

Other fascinating sites at Chichen Itza include the Platform of the Skulls, the Jaguar Throne in the Interior Temple, the Temple of the Jaguars, the Great Ball Court, the Cenote of Sacrifice, the Temple of the Warriors, the Great Market, the ceremonial sweat baths, the Nuns Quarters, and the El Caracol astronomical observatory are just some of the awe - inspiring limestone structures, ornate stone carvings, and mysterious ceremonial sites that you can witness at Chichen Itza.

This site was featured in National Geographic after the sensational discovery of the mummy of a tattooed priestess, buried with a variety of ceremonial and military accoutrements.

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.

Included is perhaps the most impressive site in the city, Sacsayhuman, where huge ceremonial walls loom over splendid views of the city.

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.

The second ceremonial site deeper in ATM is in an upper chamber and include the skeletal remains of 14 bodies, about half of of them children.

Actun Tunichil Muknal, a mysterious Mayan ceremonial site, was featured in National Geographic magazine for its unique and sacred interiors that have no equal.

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.

While primitive ceremonial sites were once consecrated in terrestrial environments like caves and forests, or even accessed through use of ritual hallucinogenic agents, over time our ability and even our desire to connect with these spaces has been amputated.

Government should take immediate steps, in cooperation with the indigenous peoples concerned, to identify sacred and ceremonial sites, including burial sites, healing places, and traditional places of teaching, and to protect such places from unauthorised entry or use and from deterioration.

Indigenous peoples have the right to manifest, practise, develop and teach their spiritual and religious traditions, customs and ceremonies; the right to maintain, protect, and have access in privacy to their religious and cultural sites; the right to the use and control of their ceremonial objects; and the right to the repatriation of their human remains.

Construction of the complex commenced in the summer of 2006 with a ceremonial knocking down of the «stump,» a six - storey elevator core erected 15 years ago by the previous owners of the site.