Mayan civilisation

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On the territory of modern Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala remained exotic ruins, wall paintings of the Maya, who created his writing, with scientific knowledge in the field of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, physics, surviving in its «Golden age» and the fallen under the blows of the Spanish conquerors in the XVI century.

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In the forests in the West of Honduras, in the valley of the river of Copan in the course of thousands of years was hidden nature of the Ghost town. Huddled under the green canopy of tropical forest, the trunks of mahogany and сейбы hiding white-stone palaces, bound by climbers and vines. Tropical rains washed away intricate stucco figures, the roots of trees раскрошили stone. The men disappeared, created the city. And only in 1839, American lawyer and diplomat John Lloyd Стефенс and English artist Frederic Казервуд came here the hard way and opened the world a wonderful civilization

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The main adornment of the men was a kilt (Ashe); it was a strip of fabric with the width in the palm of the hand, which several times wrapped around her waist, then pass between the legs so that the ends hung down the front and rear. Loincloths eminent persons «with great care and beauty» were decorated with feathers or embroidery.

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Women's clothes consisted of two main items: long dress (cube), which is either started above his chest, leaving the shoulders of the public, or (as, for example, in Yucatan) was a rectangular piece of cloth with slots for the hands and the head, and the bottom of her skirt.

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Among the variety of motives, rich of art of the ancient Maya (I Millennium BC. e.) you can also note a lot of motives, one way or another connected with agriculture. Complex мотыгообразное instrument is presented on one of the stone reliefs Тикаля. The ruler (or priest) in a suit, with a picture of a frog (or a lizard) on the chest (amphibious the American Indians are always associated with water, the rain, fertility), the left hand rests on a hoe or advanced digging stick, and the right hand is raised his hand up, as if speaking to the sky, to the gods.

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We can conclude that the Maya civilization was very well-developed culture. But the climatic conditions erased this civilization on the face of the earth. The details of this incident are still not known.

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The End.