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- Monument title: Pyramid of the Niches
- Period: Classic
- Date: 800
- Medium: Flagstone
- 1. It was built in two phases
- 2. It is 7 stories tall
- 3. It has 365 niches which are representative of the calendar, and are about 2 ft deep
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- Title: Close up of beheading on S Ball Court Panel @ El Tajin
- Period: Classic
- Date: 600-1200
- Civilization: Veracruz
- Medium: Limestone
- 1. Carved in situ (on site, original place)
- 2. Depicts ball game players elaborately dressed wearing yolks being sacrificed
- 3. Low relief and strictly profile view
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- Title: Tikal Temple 1
- Date: 740-750 AD
- Period: Late Classic
- Height: 154 ft high
- 1. Unique because you don't see the roof comb anywhere else
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- Title: Tikal Temple 2
- Date: 700 AD
- Period: Late Classic
- Height: 124 ft high
- 1. Corbel vaulting
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- Title: Palenque
- Period: Late Classic
- Date: 600
- Civilization: Maya
- 1. Organized around the Usumacinta river
- 2. Ruins date back to 100 BC to its fall around 800 AD
- 3. Only 10% of the site in excavated
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- Title: Temple of the Inscriptions
- Period: Late Classic
- Date: 675
- Civilization: Maya
- Material: stone
- 1. Made up of 9 levels which is associated with the underworld
- 2. Discovered by Alberto Ruz
- 3. unique among all Mesoamerican pyramids having been built before the ruler's death
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- Title: Lid from Temple of Inscriptions
- Period: Late Classic
- Date: 683
- Civilization: Maya
- Medium: stone
- 1. Covered the entrance into the tomb
- 2. Served as an air conditioning vent to let cool air flow into temple
- 3. Seen as a doorway to life and life was a doorway to
- death
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- Title: Heiroglyphic staircase (copan)
- Period: Late Classic
- Date: 710-755 AD
- Civilizations: Maya
- Medium:
- 1. 5 statues sitting on steps that ascend from older to younger
- 2. There are 2200 heiroglyphs and 62 steps
- 3. It was very decorated
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