- Editorial:
- MESOWEB
- Materia:
- No ficción guatemalteca en inglés
- ISBN:
- 978-0-9821333-9-2
- Páginas:
- 288
- Encuadernación:
- Tapa blanda
TEMPLE OF THE NIGHT SUN: A ROYAL MAYA TOMB AT EL DIABLO,
Maya kings led opulent lives and, in death, lay in spectacular tombs. This book, illustrated with over 350 photographs and graphics in full color, publishes a royal crypt found in 2010 at El Zotz, Guatemala. Covered by a temple with celestial symbols, the tomb proved unusually rich. The main body belonged to the likely founder of a dynasty in the fourth century AD. The treasure with him included effigy ceramics, jade masks, regalia, textiles, objects of decayed wood, straw mats, necklaces, and paint cakes of specular hematite