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SOUTH AMERICA

The Mayan Statue

Across the Atlantic Ocean centuries after the first Egyptian pyramids were built, Indian civilization developed in the Americas. The Mayan civilization was one of the important ancient cultures in Central America.

The head here is a cast, believed to be of Lord Pacal, ruler of Palenque from 615 A.D. until his death at eighty in 683 A.D. Some archeologists dispute the suggestion that this is a representation of Pacal. The column is decorated with the form of a Mayan Pyramid, and a typical Mayan style figure. The reclining figure is a Chacmool; the small clay inset is one of three Mayan ways of writing the numeral zero. Next to the head is a small stone taken from the stone stairway of the Temple of the Inscriptions, at Palenque.

Aztec Figure/Calendar

The Aztecs were the last of the great Mesoamerican civilizations, and dominated in Central America until the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s.

The protruding piece is a replica of a typical form of Aztec art, the serpent's head, which was used to decorate many Aztec temples.

Next to the serpent's head is the Aztec calendar. The design is actually a schematic representation of how the Aztecs saw themselves placed in the universe.

Object d’Art	Historical Date	Cross-Related Dates and Events	Comments Related to Objects d'Art
MAYA	-600 to –501	· Cyprus under Egyptian rule · Babylonian captivity of the Jews and first Hebrew written words of the Old Testament	· Mayan civilization is established · Pascal rules in Palenque over 1,000 years later, from 615 to 683
AZTEC	1327 to 1364	· Great fire of Munich in 1327 · Black Death in lEurope 1347	· Mexico City is established by the Aztecs 1327 · Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the Aztec, is built in 1364

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