A Forest Of Kings
by Schele, Linda
Published by : William Morrow | Quill (New York) Physical details: 542 p ISBN:0688112048. ISSN:978068811 Year: 1992| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 900 - 999 | 972.81016 Sch (Browse shelf) | Available | 67128 |
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| 972.801 Fer Maya ruins in Central America in color | 972.8052 Boo Understanding Central America : | 972.81016 Coe Breaking the Maya code | 972.81016 Sch A Forest Of Kings | 972.83 Pre The lost city of the Monkey God : | 972.84052 Did Salvador | 972.87/02 Tho Born to be hanged : |
Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Morrow, ©1990.
Prologue: Personal notes --
Foreword --
Time travel in the jungle --
Sacred space, holy time, and the Maya world --
Cerros: the coming of kings --
A war of conquest: Tikal against Uaxactún --
Stars wars in the seventh century --
The children of the First Mother: family and dynasty at Palenque --
Bird-Jaguar and the Cahalob --
Copán: the death of first dawn on Macaw Mountain --
Kingdom and empire at Chichén Itzá --
The end of a literate world and its legacy to the future --
Epilogue: Back to the beginning --
Glossary of gods and icons.
Tells the story of Mayan kingship from the beginning of its institution and the first great pyramid builders two thousand years ago to the decline of Maya civilization and its destruction by the Spanish.
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