num_pages: 272
description: Professor Coe incorporates the latest ideas and research in a fast-changing field. Spectacular tomb discoveries at the city of Copan reveal some of the early artistic and architectural splendours at this major site. New finds here and elsewhere entail a complete reinterpretation of the relationship between the warrior-kings of the classic Maya lowlands and Teotihuacan, the greatest city of pre-Conquest America. Continuing epigraphic breakthroughs - decipherments of Maya inscriptions - demonstrate vividly the shifting power blocs among the competing Maya city-states.
language: English
title: The Maya
titlecomplete: The Maya (Ancient Peoples & Places)
genres: Historical, History, Ancient History, Latin American, The Americas, Latin American History, Archaeology, Nonfiction, Art, Anthropology
ratings_count: 1329
places: Central America, Mayan Yucatán
series: Ancient Peoples and Places
publisher: Thames & Hudson