The Serial Stelae Cycle of "18-Rabbit–God K," King of Copan
by
Elizabeth A. Newsome
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Assemblies of rectangular stone pillars, or stelae, fill the plazas and courts of ancient Maya cities throughout the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras. Mute testimony to state rituals that linked the king's power to rule with the rhythms and renewal of time, the stelae...