City "Tikal" .. the world from the remnants of the lost Mayan civilization

Throughout the ages and times, has been associated with the imagination of travelers and lovers of travel and roaming mysteriously lost cities of ancient civilizations and bygone, The City and Park Tikal Guatemala, one of the most important cultural centers of the ancient Mayan civilization famous.
City "Tikal" .. the world from the remnants of the lost Mayan civilization
Tikal is located in the heart of the province of Peten in the remote northeast of Guatemala
The city is located in the heart of the province of Peten in the remote northeast of Guatemala, and is considered the city of Flores, about 60 kilometers from the archaeological sites, is the starting point for many tours that roam the rainforest and Mayan ruins.
The importance of the city and its ruins entrenched in the life of history to it subjected to the most important cultural centers of the Mayan civilization of the great and reflect the cultural development and civilization of human society Mayan starting from the stage of hunting down to the agrarian society stable, along with the legacy of civilizational and religious and artistic Three, crystallized in the civilization full of collapsed after the tenth century BC.
Tikal .. world from the remnants of the lost Mayan civilization
Tikal was the greatest cities of the ancient Mayan civilization, and that in the period between 200 to 900 AD
Tikal was the greatest cities of the ancient Mayan civilization, and that in the period between 200 to 900 AD. However, the city and with the approaching peak Zhamha population as a city of great civilization Zahara have been affected by the waves of destructive corrosion and cracking result probably pressure mass population including not borne energy city, Vzhv Human Growth and Urban on the balance of forests and green spaces in the period from 830 to 950 AD, making it vulnerable to a big loss in manpower through migration because of the weakness of them sustenance and pasture and the land available for cultivation and that Toakpa with weakness and cracked the central government in the city.
As a result of migration from the city's transformation after the year 950 AD to the ruins quickly affected the attractiveness of residential and did not find it, where they remained of the population but to resort to residential huts between the remnants of the city remaining, and the subsequent migration of the population of the city in the eleventh century imperceptibly because of heavy rains, which referred to the ruins of the city spent on the suitability for habitation for thousands of years to come, and after that was at the height of its glory (between the eighth and ninth century AD), a shelter for more than 90 thousand of Indians Maoist.
Tikal was declared a nature reserve in 1955, after it announced an impact nationally to Guatemala in 1931 and declared as a world natural heritage site of UNESCO continued in 1979.
The Tikal Bmtenzeadtha extended to about 22100 hectares of rainforest, and which is located in the heart of the forest, surrounded by plants grassy one the most important nature reserves in the country and that the importance of the holdings of the elements of biological, environmental, and where there are rivers, lakes and swamps, savannah and migratory birds and the elements of other important natural diversity Diversity in addition to the diversity of animal fantastic rare presence in another part of the Alm..otdm ruins of the city temples and spectacular palaces and public places that could be reached through the aqueduct infantry, and in the surrounding countryside are no traces of dwellings mankind old, there are in the city for more than three thousand impact and the remains of buildings from the period from 600 BC to 900 AD, including the remains of temples and houses and religious buildings and tombs decorated with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
For decades the city of Tikal disappeared completely buried under dense forests, like other cities of many scattered currently in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and southern Mexico, but it is even the year 1850 AD, were not known to the outside world and when he arrived prospectors and explorers it was not anything to see just some of the stacks and the hills small covered completely cover vegetable dense bushes and huge, but under the grass and shrubs were archaeological remains are still in good condition and retains archaeological landmarks, so that some thresholds wood was still good configuration.
Tikal .. world from the remnants of the lost Mayan civilization
Archaeological remains are still in good condition and retains archaeological landmarks
The visitor arrives via an extensive network of corridors to Heremat some small and scattered rocky housing, although at first glance to the Temple of the Grand Jaguar supercomputer, which stands at an altitude of 170 feet is enough to attract the eyes, even if it was just the remnants or ruins.
  The spread massacres sacrifices and offerings to the gods of Tikal on flat land and among the ruins of the temples remaining, and most of the altars dedicated to the slaughter of sacrifices Almndhurh to the gods of Tikal traced back to the period from the third century to the ninth after birth, bearing always inscriptions tells the story of priests and rituals Alndhirah associated with sacrifice, and includes Tikal five temples pyramidal In addition to the big three small residential communities were reserved for the ruling classes.
We have reached the Mayan people to discover the number zero at the time of the Europeans still believe in superstitions and Owalshr and Alhaozh and monuments remaining from the temples and others to prove their prowess astronomical and mathematical, which conform strictly comply with most of the calculations and astronomical events.
  Tikal .. world from the remnants of the lost Mayan civilization
How much is wonderful and breathtaking Temple of the Grand Jaguar, despite the splendor and the length of which up to 44 meters, but it is not the largest temple in Tikal
How much is wonderful and breathtaking Temple of the Grand Jaguar, despite the splendor and a length of up to 44 meters, but it is not the temple largest in Tikal, there is another temple height of up to 58 meters and the third height of up to 64 meters, and if Khamrk feeling that you could have seen these temples do not be surprised by the scenes were essential in the star Wars films as a base for modern rebels against the space invaders.
You should know that the temple masks as it is called, or the temple that holds 2 is located directly in the face of Temple Gajawar in the Grand Plaza area of the city.
It is noted that the ascending the stairs to the temple is so great that it makes the climb very difficult, but that is strange that in the last stairs closets, which have the highest roofs of the temples are very small in size, it raises questions about the reasons for this discrepancy.
Has been coloring the pyramids and temples of the city in red and carried the bloody walls and faces huge kings.
As is the case in ancient Egypt and Ohramha these temples were built higher in the tombs of the kings of Tikal different historical eras and found out a lot of wonderful treasures.
Archaeological sites open their doors to visitors at six in the morning, and this protected natural stretch over a wide area up to 576 square kilometers, and is considered the ancient city of the most important landmarks in Guatemala now.