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Name: | Zona Arqueológica de Bonampak, INAH |
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State: | Chiapas |
Country: | México |
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Website: | http://www.inah.gob.mx/index_.html |
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Quality of Online Info: | Website includes the description and history of the site, as well as links to other sites. |
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Focus: | Three large building complexes; Templo de las Pinturas: murals in tones of blue, red, green yellow, displaying images of war, rituals, and cosmology, in relation to the elite. Information about the rulers Yajaw Chan Muwaan and his son can be found in the inscriptions on
paintings, a door lintel in Structure 1, and on a stela. |
Source: | Bluestone, Carissa, etal. Fodor's Mexico 2005. NY: Fodor's Travel Pub., 2005. 548.
Grube, Nikolai, ed. Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest. Cologne: Konemann, 2000. 442.
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index_.html |