The Mayans and the Late Classic

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The Mayans and the Late Classic

• Category: Archaeological sites

In more ways than one, the Late Classic (600-800 AD) was the age of splendor of the pre-Hispanic Maya and paradoxically the one that led to the decline of most of the cities of the southern Lowlands. In this period, cities such as Tikal, Calakmul, Palenque, Yaxchilán and Dzibanche had their heyday.
 

Along with a notable demographic increase, an unprecedented construction boom took place, in which a large number of public buildings were erected, many of them with rich and complex decorations, arranged around large squares. 
Monuments continued to be made with hieroglyphic inscriptions that recorded different events, which show the warlike climate that prevailed at the time and the degree of concentration of power that the rulers had achieved.

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