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A Painted Vault Lid Discovered In Royal Palace Of Ek’ Balam Will Shed Light On History Of The Acropolis Of Ek’
AncientPages.com | September 16, 2023 |
A Painted Vault Lid Discovered In Royal Palace Of Ek’ Balam Will Shed Light On History Of The Acropolis Of Ek’
AncientPages.com | September 16, 2023 | Archaeology, News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a painted ancient vault lid, decorated with a depiction of a serpent.
The Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, through the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), registered this unpublished mural painting on the stone artifact.
Ek' Balam is a Yucatec-Maya archaeological site within the municipality of Temozón, Yucatán, Mexico. It lies in the Northern Maya lowlands, 25 kilometers (16 mi) north of Valladolid and 56 kilometers (35 mi) northeast of Chichen Itza. The place was particularly important place from the Preclassic until the Postclassic period. During this time, it played an essential role as the seat of a Mayan kingdom.
The site is noted for preserving the plaster on the tomb of Ukit Kan Lek Tok', the most important ruler of the Maya city of Ek Balam during the Late Classic period (A.D. 600 to 900), buried on the side of the largest pyramid.
Archaeologists also informed that this discovery of the stone block - used by the ancient Mayans as a vault lid, in one of the structures of the Ek’ Balam Acropolis - will play a crucial role in deciphering the history of the Ek’ Balam Acropolis.
This block is the seventh painted vault lid unearthed in the last year in this archaeological zone of excavations of Yucatan.
More:
https://www.ancientpages.com/2023/09/16/a-painted-vault-lid-discovered/
Over the years, we've read articles on general screwing around by stupid tourists swarming over the earlier ancient Aztec and Mayan structures. The destructiveness of idiots touring the sites has already left a trail, and created deep resentment among citizens. The thought of a tsunami of loud, pushy, self-centered people from the States galloping up and down ancient crumbling staircases, even when there are signs telling them to stay off the stairs, doesn't leave you feeling too optimistic for the future of the Yucatán. Just making a ton of tourism bucks for the Mexican treasury would never justify losing priceless historical buildings and monuments.
Sure hope this has all been foreseen and dealt with before they unleash the hordes upon these super-old communities. It would be better if they had never bothered to open it up in the first place.
AncientPages.com | September 16, 2023 |
A Painted Vault Lid Discovered In Royal Palace Of Ek’ Balam Will Shed Light On History Of The Acropolis Of Ek’
AncientPages.com | September 16, 2023 | Archaeology, News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a painted ancient vault lid, decorated with a depiction of a serpent.
The Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, through the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), registered this unpublished mural painting on the stone artifact.
Ek' Balam is a Yucatec-Maya archaeological site within the municipality of Temozón, Yucatán, Mexico. It lies in the Northern Maya lowlands, 25 kilometers (16 mi) north of Valladolid and 56 kilometers (35 mi) northeast of Chichen Itza. The place was particularly important place from the Preclassic until the Postclassic period. During this time, it played an essential role as the seat of a Mayan kingdom.
The site is noted for preserving the plaster on the tomb of Ukit Kan Lek Tok', the most important ruler of the Maya city of Ek Balam during the Late Classic period (A.D. 600 to 900), buried on the side of the largest pyramid.
Archaeologists also informed that this discovery of the stone block - used by the ancient Mayans as a vault lid, in one of the structures of the Ek’ Balam Acropolis - will play a crucial role in deciphering the history of the Ek’ Balam Acropolis.
This block is the seventh painted vault lid unearthed in the last year in this archaeological zone of excavations of Yucatan.
More:
https://www.ancientpages.com/2023/09/16/a-painted-vault-lid-discovered/
Over the years, we've read articles on general screwing around by stupid tourists swarming over the earlier ancient Aztec and Mayan structures. The destructiveness of idiots touring the sites has already left a trail, and created deep resentment among citizens. The thought of a tsunami of loud, pushy, self-centered people from the States galloping up and down ancient crumbling staircases, even when there are signs telling them to stay off the stairs, doesn't leave you feeling too optimistic for the future of the Yucatán. Just making a ton of tourism bucks for the Mexican treasury would never justify losing priceless historical buildings and monuments.
Sure hope this has all been foreseen and dealt with before they unleash the hordes upon these super-old communities. It would be better if they had never bothered to open it up in the first place.
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