Uaxactun
Uaxactun (to pronounce ouachaktoun , to see: alphabetical Transcription of the languages Maya) is an archaeological site Maya, located in the Petén at the Guatemala, with a score of kilometers in the north of Tikal. Its current name means “eight stone” in Maya and was given to him by the archeologist Sylvanus Morley, in remembering the stele 9, which dates from the eighth Baktun. At the time traditional, the city would have been called Siaan K' aan.
History
Uxactun seems to have been the rival of Tikal at the end of the preclassical Time and at the beginning of the traditional Time. It seems to be overcome by Tikal in 379 after J. - C. and to be become a satellite of Tikal.
The site
Uaxactun has an architecture characteristic of platteformes decorated with large masks in stucco. Most known of these platteformes is the structure E-VII sub, which is famous in several connections. It presents a typical feature of Maya architecture: each rebuilding recovers the preceding building. As the last state of structure E-VII was extremely dilapidated, one decided to restore the building which was below, which is one of the more good examples of preclassical architecture. This structure belongs to a Groupe in E, whose each side has a flanked staircase of sixteen masks representing of the lords or the monsters Witz. The topics of these masks are to be brought closer to those found with Cerros, with the Belize. This pyramid was an astronomical observatory: its east coast deals with three small temples aligned in order to be able to observe raise it sun to the solstices and the equinoxes.
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