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A superb guide to eleven of the `most influential and best-known kingdoms' that helped to shape Mayan history, including 152 biographical accounts of 152 kings and 4 ruling queens. Written by two of the foremost experts on Mayan hieroglyphic decipherment, this book includes a concise text accompanied by a timeline, illustrations, maps, photographs, useful summaries and guides to decipherment and spellings. It outlines the major periods of history and aspects of Mayan culture before focusing on issues of divinity, power and authority, the royal court, war, death and burial and politics for each of the kingdoms studied: Tikal, Dos Pilas, Naranjo, Caracol, Calakmul, Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras, Palenque, Tonina, Copan and Quirigua.
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About the Author
Simon Martin is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Nikolai Grube is Professor of Anthropology and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Bonn.
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There's nothing else like this book. It supersedes everything else ever written on Maya history. -- Michael D. Coe, author of Breaking the Maya Code
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- PublisherThames and Hudson
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0500051038
- ISBN 13 9780500051030
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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