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1000places > CARACOL, BELIZE - As at many Maya sites, there are stalae and altars, but at Caracol many are now protected under a thatched hut. One of the stones found during construction of the access road to the site described Caracol's conquest of Tikal in AD 562, answering a long-standing puzzle as to why no carvings had been found at Tikal during its mysterious 120-year "dark age."
1000places > TIKAL, GUATEMALA - Hieroglyphic writing on the stone stelae in Tikal first appeared around AD 292. This stela depicts a richly dressed profile figure thought to be a dynastic ruler of the city. The last stela at Tikal was erected in AD 869, shortly after which evidence indicates that the huge city-state began falling sharply into decline.
1000places > TIKAL, GUATEMALA - Some of the stelae are so weathered that they are undecipherable today.
1000places > TIKAL, GUATEMALA - The Great Plaza also has rows of stelae, more than 14 in all, most accompanied by a circular altar. The stones were used to record the events of the time. Many are covered with glyphic writing, and pictures. Over 200 stone stelae, altars and glyphic stones have been discovered in the city.
1000places > YAXHA, GUATEMALA - There were several stelae at the site, although some had toppled from their original position. Our tour leader Ruben described some of the glyphs that can still be read on the stelae.
1000places > COPAN, HONDURAS - One of few stelae in the Great Plaza that does NOT depict "18 Rabbit," Stela 1 is set back into a niche. The figure shown on the stela has been determined to be Smoke Imix God K (or Smoke Jaguar), the 12th ruler of Copán.
1000places > COPAN, HONDURAS - In the Great Plaza of Copan, many of the stelae are semi-protected by tin roofs, but some of the most exquisite have been left open to the elements -- good for the "natural" look but damaging to the long-term preservation of these unique sculptures.
1000places > COPAN, HONDURAS - Our local guide at Copan was Jorge Arnoldo Barraza who showed us the subtle carvings on the stelae in the Great Plaza, most of which were erected between the years AD 711 and 736.
1000places > COPAN, HONDURAS - On Stela B, the Copan ruler "18-Rabbit" appears disguised as the ax-wielding executioner Chac, a god associated with Venus as Evening Star. The monument portrays him standing within the portal of the underworld, depicted as a great yawning monster whose blunt snout rears above his head and whose lower teeth are bared at the king's feet.
CARACOL, BELIZE - As at many Maya sites, there are stalae and altars, but at Caracol many are now protected under a thatched hut. One of the stones found during construction of the access road to the site described Caracol's conquest of Tikal in AD 562, answering a long-standing puzzle as to why no carvings had been found at Tikal during its mysterious 120-year "dark age."

1000places > CARACOL, BELIZE - As at many Maya sites, there are stalae and altars, but at Caracol many are now protected under a thatched hut. One of the stones found during construction of the access road to the site described Caracol's conquest of Tikal in AD 562, answering a long-standing puzzle as to why no carvings had been found at Tikal during its mysterious 120-year "dark age."
CARACOL, BELIZE - As at many Maya sites, there are stalae and altars, but at Caracol many are now protected under a thatched hut. One of the stones found during construction of the access road to the site described Caracol's conquest of Tikal in AD 562, answering a long-standing puzzle as to why no carvings had been found at Tikal during its mysterious 120-year "dark age."

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