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Zoomorph B at the Maya site of Quiriguá in Guatemala.
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'massive, ornately carved boulder known as a zoomorph—a sculpture blending human and animal features—surrounded by jungle foliage'
March 1, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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Stela E, Quirigua.
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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#SundayPixTrees Quirigua Archeological Park, Guatemala.
February 22, 2026 at 6:53 AM
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600-900 AD
Guatemala
(Quirigua, Maya style,
250-900 AD)
Overall: 34.6 x 19.3 cm (13 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
The Cleveland Museum of Art Collection.
March 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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'Antikes' #FotoVorschlag

Stelen von Quirigua/ Guatemala
UNESCO Weltkulturerbe
Maya-Kultur, 10-15 m hoch
ca 1200-1500Jahre alt

(mitten in einer Chiquita Plantage 🍌 und deshalb leider sehr schlecht geschützt! )
Holzsteg auf einer Wiese der an einer riesigen mit Palmwedeldach geschützten Stele vorbei führt. Die sandsteinfarbene Stele ist über und über mit Hyroglyphen versehen. Dahinter sind Urwaldbäume zu sehen.
September 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Was going through Wikipedia's On This Day and I'm always floored we have the sources to know that on this day in 771 CE the ruler Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Yopaat dedicated a 65-ton stele in the city of Quiriguá

It's a level of historical knowledge about the Maya that was completely elided in my education
The face of Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Yopaat on a stele
January 24, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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UNESCO World: Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua

Inhabited since the 2nd century A.D., Quirigua had become during the reign of Cauac Sky (723–84) the capital of an autonomous and prosperous state. The ruins of Quirigua contain some outst...
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Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua
May 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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The stele itself, which lists its date of dedication on the Mayan calendar

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Archaeological Map of the Maya Ruins of Quirigua
Archaeological map of Quirigua, the rebellious vassel state of Copan
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January 24, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Estela K de Quiriguá (805 d. C.)
Civilización Maya #Guatemala 🇬🇹

#arqueologia
#historia
April 15, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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Day 1 of the PATA field trip led the participants to a slip rate site and a trench on the Motagua Fault. Today we will see earthquake damage to Maya ruins at Quirigua.
A group of geologists standing inside, and around, a trench
January 31, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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#Quirigua, Guatemala.
I stand at the north edge of the acropolis, eradicated by #pixelsorting

In the Late Classic Period the city flourished under K'ak Tiliw Chan Yopaat and his successors. amidst a web of political intrigue they created a program of public art unrivaled in the #ClassicMaya world.
a pixel sorted photo of the acropolis at Quirigua Ruinas, Guatemala.
April 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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La photo a été prise en 1910 par le photographe et explorateur Jesse Nusbaum, où l'on voit Charles Lummis posant à côté de la stèle K de Quiriguá (Guatemala), et son fils de 9 ans, assis sur le monument Quimu Lummis.

Cette photo symbolise les prémices de l'archéologie.
December 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Photo réalisée sur le site maya de Quirigua (Guatemala) en 1894 par l'archéologue Alfred Perceval Maudslay (1850-1931), montrant un homme se tenant debout à côté de l'impressionnante stèle E.

Photo conservée au British Museum.

N° : Am,Maud,B68.5
May 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Context for the TikTok being shared of the young woman ‘hiding’ Mexico’s national treasures from the English so that they won’t be stolen and taken to the British Museum — a 1938 guide to the Maudslay collection of Maya sculptures housed in the Museum:
Cover of the British Museum Guide to the Maudslay Collection — this is an austere blue cover. Title page of the GUide, showing the extent of the Collection, with sculptures from Tikal and Quirigua (Guatemala), Copan (Honduras), and Palenque and Yaxchilan (Mexico).
July 5, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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30 years later a farmer found the other half of the rock and confirmed that couple's guess: yes, the date was September 3, 32 BC!

But here's the absolutely chilling part: the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar was so damn good that we can look at that date and know it meant September 3, 32 BC.

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Mesoamerican Long Count calendar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia East side of stela C, Quirigua with the mythical creation date of 13 baktuns, 0 katuns, 0 tuns, 0 winals, 0 kins, 4 Ahau 8 Cumku – August 11, 3114 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya. For this reason, it is often known as the Maya Long Count calendar. Using a modified vigesimal tally, the Long Count calendar identifies a day by counting the number of days passed since a mythical creation date that corresponds to August 11, 3114 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The Long Count calendar was widely used on monuments. From here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar
February 10, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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Como puede uno confiar en medios que no distinguen Quiroga de Quirigua
November 28, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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Ist das dieser Parque Arqueológico y Ruinas de Quiriguá? Und die Stelen sind myanischen Ursprungs?
March 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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📸 1885.3.4 L Stela E cast, Quiriguá, Guatemala, Modern/Classic Maya.
🔗 collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/5605...
The face of a king which looks like it has been carved from stone. He wears large ear ornaments and a large headdress, which has two plumes of feathers running down the sides.
May 13, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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In 738 CE, Quiriguá captured and executed Copán’s king, 18 Rabbit.

The former subordinate turned one royal death into independence—and a new history carved in stone.

#Brewminate #History #Maya #Mesoamerica
18 Rabbit: Copán’s King Captured and Executed
In 738, Quiriguá captured and executed Copán’s king 18 Rabbit, overturning a regional hierarchy and reshaping monumental art in both cities.
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September 2, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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This morning, we visited Quirigua about two hours outside Rio Dulce, Guatemala. It was very hot and humid today! Here's the skinny and some photos. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirigu...
February 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Looking forward to presenting research on "Race and Labor, from Maya Ruins to Bananas and Chewing Gum" at Syracuse University's Program on Latin America and the Caribbean this week! 🗃️
Holley-Kline will present as-yet-unpublished archival research on the relationships between archaeological labor, race and extractive industry in early twentieth-century Guatemala. The paper explores how ideas of race prevalent in the banana and chicle (chewing gum) industries played out in two contexts: the Archaeological Institute of America’s excavations in Quiriguá (1910-1915) and the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s research in Uaxactún (1926-1937), both of which relied on transnational labor forces. In the first, archaeologists drew on patterns of racial discrimination characteristic of the United Fruit Company in managing workers. In the second, racialization did not entail discrimination but still reflected archaeologists’ beliefs about what kinds of bodies were suitable for certain kinds of work. Ultimately, the research seeks to understand the politics of archaeology from the ground up, and relative to the transnational firms and actors that scholars relied on to do their work in the field. This event is co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department. Sam Holley-Kline is currently an ACLS Fellow, and was most recently assistant clinical professor in the University Honors program at the University of Maryland, College Park. His book, “In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico” is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press. He earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University, and has published research in the Journal of Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Archaeological Dialogues, among others.
November 19, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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⏪| 𝟏𝟐𝟖𝟖 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲…

738 - Mayan ruler Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Kʼawii (18 Rabbit) of Copán is captured and beheaded by his former vassal Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Yopaat (Cauac Sky) ruler of the nearby city of Quiriguá.
May 3, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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Restes de l'antiga civilització maia de Centreamèrica, al bell mig de la selva tropical prop de Quirigua (Guatemala)

Ibérica : el progreso de las ciencias y de sus aplicaciones : revista semanal ilustrada: Vol. 27, No. 679-680 (21 Mayo 1927)
Biblioteca de Catalunya
March 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM