South and central America:
Aztec people  |
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Aztec
Aztecs of Mexico and their history. Religion, culture, medicine, language,
On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistadors first entered the great city
of Mexico, the metropolis the Aztecs had built on a lake island. Don
Hernando Cortes, ... |
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Aztec |
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Aztecs at
Mexicolore! |
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Aztec Calendar
the Aztec Calendar, The Pointer of the Aztec Calendar, The Venus Pattern in
the Pointer, At the center of the pointer of the Aztec Calendar there
appears the face of Tonatiuh, the Sun, ... |
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Aztec Empire
For five centuries, North Americans have been fascinated and intrigued by
stories of the magnificent Aztec Empire. This extensive Mesoamerican Empire
was in its ascendancy during the late Fifteenth and early Sixteenth
Centuries, ... |
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Aztec god Quetzalcoatl Aztec god Quetzalcoatl |
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Aztec
images New Mexico, Aztec National Monument |
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manuscripts Aztec manuscripts |
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Aztecs
Aztec Chronology |
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Aztecs
Origins, Malinalco, Tenayuca Pyramid, Tenochtitlan, Moctezuma, Expansionism,
Triple Alliance, Archaeological Sites in Mexico City |
| Aztecs & the Spanish
conquest on November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistadors first entered
the great city of Mexico, the metropolis the Aztecs had built on a lake
island |
| Azteken
Azteken, Mexico, pre-culumbiaans, Tenochtitlan, in
Dutch |
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How
are the prehispanic calendars interpreted? |
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Moctezuma
Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin |
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Quetzalcoatl
he's that feathered serpent of ancient Mexico, the man, the myth, the
legend |
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Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl ("feathered serpent" or "plumed serpent") is the Nahuatl name
for the Feathered-Serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerican culture, ... |
| Tiahuanaco
and the deluge |
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Tlahuica
cultures of Morelos the Tlahuica were one of the Aztec peoples of
central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest (AD 1521). |
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Xochipilli |
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Horizontaal |
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South and central America:
Inca people |
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Andes
Andes related articles and photo galleries, featuring history and prehistory writings, photo galleries of ruins and scenery |
| Andes
expedition - searching for Inca secrets return to the peaks of South America with anthropologist Johan Reinhard, who found the famous ice maiden in
1995, Inca mummy, Peru, Inca, Andes |
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Choquequirao
Choquequirao photos |
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Choquequirao
Choquequirao photos |
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Choquequirao pdf file |
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Cusco, Capital of Incas |
| Cuzco: capital of the Incas
Cuzco is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley (Sacred
Valley) of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region
as well as the Cusco Province |
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Cuzco
Capital of the Incas & Machuu Pichuu - The Lost City, and surrounding ruins |
| Ice mummies of the Inca
(NOVA) |
| Ice treasures
of the Inca |
| Ice
treasures of the Inca human sacrifices are very rare, and this is one
of only about a half dozen ever to be excavated scientifically |
| Inca
Architecture Inca Architecture |
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Incas |
| Inca
trail and Machu Picchu Inca Trail is a walking route that leads through
the mountains above the Urubamba river, following (at least partly) the course
of an old Inca roadway leading to the city of Machu Picchu |
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Machu Picchu
photo Machu Picchu photo |
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Machu Picchu
Rediscover Machu Picchu |
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Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu is a city located high in the Andes Mountains in modern Peru.
It lies 43 miles northwest of Cuzco at the top of a ridge, hiding it from
the Urabamba gorge below, ... |
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Machu Picchu
a city located high in the Andes mountains in modern Peru. It lies 43
miles northwest of Cuzco at the top of a ridge, hiding it from the
Urabamba gorge below |
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Machu Picchu
views of Machu Picchu, Perú's lost city of the Incas |
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Machu Picchu’s
Observatory Machu Picchu’s Observatory: the Re-Discovery of Llactapata and its Sun-Temple |
| Machu
Picchu:
photos & text Machu Picchu pages |
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Machu
Picchu:
photos |
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Pisaq photo Pisaq photo |
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Pisaq photo gallery views of Pisaq, a set of several ruins in Peru's Valley
of the Incas |
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Pisaq photo gallery
Pisaq and Ollantaytambo, The Sacred Valley of Inca, "new" and "old" Pisaq,
Ollantaytambo |
| Saxsayhuaman
photo gallery views of Saxsayhuaman, the greatest monument of the
Incas |
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Saxsayhuaman |
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Saxsayhuaman |
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Urubamba: The Sacred Valley of the Incas Urubamba: The Sacred Valley of
the Incas |
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South
and central America: Mayan people |
| Chichen
Itza Deep within the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala and extending into
the limestone shelf of the Yucatan peninsula lie the mysterious temples and
pyramids of the Maya, ... |
| Chichen Itza
views of Chichen Itza, an archaeological site in Yucatan, Mexico,
Chichen
Itza images |
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Copan |
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Copan |
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Copan
Copan is the name by which the site has been known since 1576, the Copan
Emblem |
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Copán in the
Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing Copán ranks among the most
important of Maya sites for many reasons, but foremost among these is its
vast number of hieroglyphic texts |
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Copán Ruins |
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Images of the Maya
Images of the Maya |
| Lost
King of the Maya using ancient hieroglyphs and new excavations,
archeologists investigate the rise and fall of the majestic city of Copan |
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Maya: Mystery
of the Maya The Maya are probably the best-known of the classical
civilizations of Mesoamerica. Originating in the Yucatán around 2600 B.C.,
they rose to prominence around A.D. 250 in present-day southern Mexico,
Guatemala, northern Belize and western Honduras, ... |
| Maya archaeology
Mayan, Olmec, Teotihuacan art, architecture, deities, hieroglyphic writing |
| Maya
calendar the Maya calendar was the center of Maya life and their
greatest achievement |
| Maya
history on Ambergris and surrounding area |
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Mayan art Mayan art |
| Mayan
epigraphic project classic Mayan epigraphic research |
| Mayan glyphs and
arhcitecture Mayan hieroglyphic writing, how to write your name in Mayan, virtual reality Mayan buildings, Maya calendar, Mayan glyph images, Maya culture,
Inuk, Inuktituk, Greenland, Nunavat, pyramid, Uxmal, Chichen Itza, Bonampak,
bloodletting, precolumbian, mesoamerica, huitlacoche |
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Maya civilization - past & present
Maya, native american, stories, story, legends, myths, tales, culture, literature, guatemala, chiapas |
| Mayan ruins page
a photographic tour of Mayan archaeological sites, with interactive maps, Tikal, Uxmal, Calakmul, Campeche,
Puuc Hills, Peten, Rio Bec ruins, Yucatan, Chicanna, Dzibilnocac, Kohunlich, Labna, Lamanai, Sayil, Xpujil, Xunantunich |
| Maya
sites |
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Maya: Yaxuná
Project The Yaxuná Project |
| Palenque
Palenque: temple of the inscriptions and group of the cross |
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Palenque |
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Palenque Palenque is a ruin city that is part of the Maya civilization
that dates back to 100 BC to its fall around 800 BC. It is located on the
western edge of the Maya empire near the present-day city of Chiapas, Mexico |
| Tulum in
Mexico images |
| Virtual Palenque Maya ruins of Palenque, Mexico |
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South and central America:
Olmec people |
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Olmeca-Xicalanca Olmeca-Xicalanca images |
| Olmec art |
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OLMEC ART AT DUMBARTON OAKS Pre-Columbian Art at Dumbarton Oaks,
pdf file |
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Olmecs
During the Pre-classic period between 1200 BC-600 AD, the Olmec were the
most prevalent group in Mesoamerica. The Olmec resided around the regions of
La Venta in Tabasco, San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan and Laguna de los Cerros in
Veracruz |
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Olmec: Nubians and Olmecs |
| Olmecs
the Olmec Indians had a civilization along the Gulf coast in what is now
southern Mexico from about 1200-300 BC |
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Olmec World |
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South
and central America: other cultures |
| Amahuaca:
Amazon tribe of Peru |
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Ayacucho The Ayacucho Basin is located within central Peru and consists
of several archeological sites which date from 23,000 B.C. to 1470 AD |
| AymaraNet
the Aymaras in Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Ecuador |
| Belize |
| Canela Indians
Brazil's Canela Indians, the Canela Native Americans of Central Brazil live in grassy, open woodlands
with stream-edge forests. They inhabit an area between the wet Amazon basin
and the dry Northeast |
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Caral: the oldest city of the Americas |
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Chanchan The capital of Chimu, Chan Chan, is dated from 1000 to about 1400
A.D. The site of Chan Chan is located in the Moche Valley, about 300 miles
north of Lima |
| Chilca
valley: Peru Chilca Valley lies on the western coast of Peru, surrounded
by the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, called the puna zone |
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Chupícuaro |
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El
Tajin photo gallery the Classic Veracruz civilization, which
flourished from AD 600 to AD 900 |
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Garifuna people of Belize the Garifuna, descended from shipwrecked Africans |
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Huichol
the Huichol of Mexico, their culture, symbolism and art, The Huichol are
an indigenous ethnic group of Western Central Mexico that live in the Sierra
Madre Occidental, in the states of Nayarit and Jalisco |
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Huichol of Mexico,
their culture, symbolism and art Huichol of Mexico, their culture,
symbolism and art |
| Ice mummies |
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Izapa Izapa
was a very large pre-Columbian site located in Chiapas, Mexico, often placed
in the Late Formative period. The site is situated on the Suchiate River and
also near the base of the volcano Tacaná, which is the second largest
mountain in Mexico, ... |
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Izapa
views of Izapan stelae and ceramics. Izapa, an ancient mound/stelae
complex in Mesoamerica, is located on the Pacific Coast piedmont along the
Mexico-Guatemala border next to the International Bridge a few miles from
Tapachula |
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Kuna Indians in Panama |
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Leimebamba: Home of the Mummies Leimebamba: Home of the Mummies |
| Lost
cave people the program follows an international group of
archeologists, who ventured into the Chiapas region of Mexico in 1997 to
search for the remains of a little-known civilization that preceded the
Maya |
| Lords of Copan |
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Mapuche indians
Mapuche Indians in Chile Struggle to Take Back Forests |
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Mapuche indians
Mapuche are the original Amerindian inhabitants of Central and Southern
Chile and Southern Argentina. They were known as Araucanos (Araucanians) by
the Spaniards but this is now considered pejorative by the people |
| Marco Gonzales
the Marco Gonzalez Maya Site is located near the southern tip of Ambergris
Caye. It was first recorded archaeologically in 198% by Dr. Elizabeth
Graham and Dr. David M. Pendergast, and was named by them after their
local guide |
| Mixtec Codices |
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Nazca culture
The Nazca culture flourished in the Nazca region between 300 BC and 800 AD.
They created the famous Nazca lines and built an impressive system of
underground aqueducts that still function today, ... |
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Nasca
lines Nazca is one of the most famous archaeological sites in South
America. It is located on the coastal plain of southern Peru, from Chincha
to Acari valleys |
| Nasca
lines |
| Nazca: Peru |
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Nazca The
Water Lines of Nazca |
| Plants of
the Machiguenga |
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Rosalila's
temple Rosalila's temple, the discovery of ROSALILA (LILYROSE), which is
a temple beneath another temple |
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Teotihuacan
Teotíhuacán: The City of the Gods |
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Teotihuacan
the greatest ancient city in North America |
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Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan, commonly translated from the Nahuatl as "City of the Gods", is
organized around this central axis, now called the "Avenue of the Dead" |
| Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan home page, Patlachique, Tzacualli, Miccaotli, Tlamimilolpa,
Xolalpan, and Metepec |
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The Ancient
Walls |
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Tiahuanaco Tiahuanaco, near the shores of Lake Titicaca, was the center
of a powerful, self-sustaining empire in the southern Central Andes, ... |
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Tiwanaku The Tiwanaku were settled by 400 B.C. on the Bolivian side of
Lake Titicaca. The main center developed into a bustling city, constructed
with many terraced platform pyramids, ... |
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Tiwanaku
The prehistoric city of Tiwanaku is located on the southern shore of the
famous Lake Titicaca along the border between Bolivia and Peru |
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Tiwanaku
photo gallery views of Tiwanaku, the ruins of an ancient city near the
south shore of Lake Titicaca |
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Toltec Culture |
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Toltecs
Toltecs |
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Totonacs |
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Tula
View of Tula Hidalgo |
| Xochicalco
The site of Xochicalco is located on a hilltop in Morelos, with defensive
walls and terracing along most of the hillside. This site, like Cacaxtla,
shows the tell-tale signs of warfare and widespread culture contact after
the fall of Teotihuacan, ... |
| Xochicalco
photos and description, The site of Xochicalco, in modern Morelos,
participated in a Terminal and Postclassic communication sphere with sites
such as Chichén Itzá, Tula, and Cacaxtla |
| Xochicalco
only photos, ancient city, pyramids |
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Xochicalco photos |
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Xochicalco photos |
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Xochicalco photos
Morelos, Xochicalco |
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Xochicalco
Xochicalco is a Pre-Columbian archeological site in the western part of the
Morelos, Mexico. The name "Xochicalco" means "In the house of Flowers" in
the Nahuatl language, ... |
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Zapotecs |
| Zapotecs
much of Zapotec history centers on the large archaeological site of Monte
Alban. The site was first occupied some time between 800 and 400 B.C.,
probably by Zapotecs from the outset |
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