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Maya Hero Twins: Hunahpu and Xbalanque.
In: Salem Press Encyclopedia of Literature, 2023-04-30, S. 3
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Zugriff:
The culture of the ancient Maya people has taken on something like a legendary status in modern times. Established around 2000 BCE near what today is the border of Mexico and Guatemala, Maya civilization would grow over thousands of years to include millions of people, diverse ethnic groups, thriving city-states, and some of the most advanced understandings of science and written languages in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Despite the many accomplishments of the Maya civilization, however, much of its history has been lost to time. This is largely due to two major periods of decline, one in the second century CE and one in the eighth to ninth, as well as to invasion and violent oppression by Europeans in the sixteenth century. While Maya culture thrived beyond the periods of decline and colonization, the destruction that came along with those periods has made it difficult for modern historians and archaeologists to re-create a detailed understanding of ancient Maya life. This lack of information, combined with evidence of extraordinary advancements by the Maya people, has made ancient Maya culture fascinating to many contemporary scholars as well as to the public.
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Maya Hero Twins: Hunahpu and Xbalanque.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Fleischmann, T. |
Zeitschrift: | Salem Press Encyclopedia of Literature, 2023-04-30, S. 3 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
Medientyp: | Nachschlagewerk |
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