The Dark Mysteries in the History of Mankind: Great powers of forgotten worlds by Jennifer S. Dawson

Author:Jennifer S. Dawson [Dawson, Jennifer S.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Of great interest is the evolution that the Mayans made in urban planning. Their first buildings, erected for ritual purposes or as dwellings of priests and leaders, were nothing more than simple huts that had different sizes. The foundation for them at this time (IV-II century BC) served as platforms of various heights, lined with stone and piece. In a later pre-classical period (closer to the first millennium AD), the grounds for buildings began to turn into stepped pyramids, which were created by superimposing one platform on another. However, even in this period, the temple, crowning the pyramid, despite the fact that its base was decorated with rich alabaster masks, it was, in general, an ordinary hut with a palm roof. And only in the classical period of development, beginning from the first centuries of our era, the stone roof came to replace the palm roof. He received the name of the false arch or the Mayan arch. This architectural innovation is not Maya invention. Some peoples of the Old World, for example, the Mykene, covered their homes and buildings for several thousand years earlier than the first sprouts of the culture of an ancient Indian civilization.

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