num_pages: 240
description: This volume retraces the development and magnificent flowering of Mayan architecture in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize over the period 300 B.C.-A.D. 1500. Tikal, the earliest Mayan religious center, Palenque, famous for its ceremonial center, and Copan, with its hieroglyphic staircase featuring 2500 glyphs, are among the cites featured.
language: English
title: The Maya: Palaces and Pyramids of the Rain Forest
titlecomplete: The Maya: Palaces and Pyramids of the Rain Forest
genres: History, Nonfiction, Archaeology, Art, Architecture
ratings_count: 26
publisher: TASCHEN