Show threadBridge&Tunnel JeffMay 31, 2025

A couple of years before COVID, at the Mayan site of Quiriguá (Guatemala).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirigu%C3%A1

#Quirigua #Mayans #Guatemala

pixelhexingApr 23, 2025

Quirigua, Guatemala.
I stand at the north edge of the acropolis, eradicated by a script.

In the Terminal Classic Period Quirigua flourished under K'ak Tiliw Chan Yopaat and his successors. amidst a fascinating web of political intrigue they created a program of public art and iconography unrivaled in the Classic Maya world.

#archaeology #classicmaya #quirigua #pixelsorting #creativecoding

Show threadJQ JacobsJan 22, 2023
#StandingStoneSunday #Quirigua #PhotoResearch
Another old #photo, from a #GlassPlate, found via #Maudslay #Archaeology Mesoweb Publications: https://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Maudslay/ and from #LibraryofCongress via #WikimediaCommons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guatemala._Quirigua_LCCN2016821509.jpg
Cropped and colorized. Again, click the image to see the top.
Mesoweb Publications: Maudslay's Archaeology

Show threadJQ JacobsJan 22, 2023
Another #Quirigua photo with people for scale.
#Panoramio #PhotoShare by d dieger
https://web.archive.org/web/20161101154053/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/114482054
#StandingStoneSunday
Panoramio - Photo of Guatemala, Quirigua

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Show threadJQ JacobsJan 22, 2023
Doing some #Quirigua #PhotoResearch I found a good travel blog, https://www.svudapodji.com/en/mesoamerica-2008-30/
and a great old photograph here, https://exhibits.tulane.edu/exhibit/maya-stelae/stories-in-stone/
Having people next to the stela really shows the scale of the monument. Click the image to see the top too.
#StandingStoneSunday #Maya #Stela
Central America 2008, part 30 (Guatemala: Quiriguá)

Although I went to sleep rather early, I was still surprised when the next morning I woke up in the hotel room I took in village Quiriguá, Guatemala, around 5.30 am! Admittedly, I was helped in this by local roosters and some birds, but I still kept trying to

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JQ JacobsJan 22, 2023
#StandingStoneSunday #Quirigua #Maya #Archaeology
Tallest ancient standing stone in the Americas, 10m.
Creative Commons, modified photo, resized, cropped to 16 : 9.
Photo credit: Arian Zwegers https://www.flickr.com/photos/azwegers/15772721779
#UNESCO #Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/149/
#Geolocation 15.2719, -89.0403
#Stela #Izabal #Guatemala
Quirigua, Stela E

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