Rio Nozzle
Rio Bec is a rather great Maya site located in the south of the state of Campeche at Mexico. It gave its name to a style of Maya Architecture.
The site was discovered at the beginning of the 20th century: the first explorer to be gone to Rio Bec is the count Maurice de Perigny in 1906-07. He was excavated only very sporadically since, in particular in 1976, furniture Céramique having been treated and analyzed by Stan Steer.
One of the characteristics of the site is its bursting: here, not of ceremonial center grouped as with Tikal. Rio Bec raises false pyramids, the made-to-order of Kohjunlich, for example structure groups has, gr. 6N-1. The temple which is drawn up at the top has only the thickness of a thick wall and carries quadripartite signs in frome of cross. A central habitat bordered of two turns in the shape of pyramid: it is according to this structure misleads of it the eye which was baptized the “style Rio nozzle”. The site date completion of the traditional period.
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- Maya Civilization
- Maya People
- List of the Maya sites
- Chichén Itzá
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- history of the Mayas
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