The Maya: Palaces and Pyramids of the Rain Forest

This volume retraces the development and magnificent flowering of Mayan architecture in Mexico Guatemala Honduras and Belize over the period 300 B.C.-A.D. 1500. Tikal the earliest Mayan religious center Palenque famous for its ceremonial center and Copan with its hieroglyphic staircase featuring 2500 glyphs are among the cites featured.