{"id":12342,"date":"2023-06-22T11:28:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T05:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12342"},"modified":"2025-03-30T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T03:19:13","slug":"ancient-mayan-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ancient-mayan-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Mayan City"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Ancient Maya city:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the Balamku ecological reserve on the country&#8217;s <strong>Yucatan Peninsula.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This city has been <strong>named Ocomtun<\/strong> &#8211; meaning &#8220;stone column&#8221; in the Yucatec Maya language.<\/li>\n<li>This would have been an important centre for the peninsula&#8217;s central lowland region between 250 and 1000 AD.<\/li>\n<li>The city includes large <strong>pyramid-like buildings, stone columns, three plazas<\/strong> with &#8220;imposing buildings&#8221; and other structures arranged in almost-concentric circles.<\/li>\n<li>It has a core area located on high ground surrounded by extensive wetlands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key Facts about Mayan Civilization<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Maya are probably the best-known of the <strong>classical civilizations of Mesoamerica.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Originating in the <strong>Yucat\u00e1n peninsula around 2600 B.C.<\/strong>, they rose to prominence around A.D. 250 in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, northern Belize and western Honduras.<\/li>\n<li>Building on the inherited inventions and ideas of earlier civilizations, the Maya developed <strong>astronomy, calendrical systems and hieroglyphic writing.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Maya were noted as well for elaborate and highly decorated ceremonial architecture, including temple pyramids, palaces and observatories, all built without metal tools.<\/li>\n<li>They were also skilled farmers, clearing large sections of tropical rainforest and, where groundwater was scarce, building sizable underground reservoirs for the storage of rainwater.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Where is Yucatan Peninsula?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a Northeastern projection of Central America which is lying <strong>between the Gulf of Mexico to the west and north and the Caribbean Sea to the east.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The peninsula is almost wholly composed of beds of <strong>coralline and porous limestone rocks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is hieroglyphics?<\/h3>\n<p>It is composed of pictorial symbols or signs known as hieroglyphs, which represent both objects and ideas. The term &#8220;hieroglyphics&#8221; is derived from the Greek words &#8220;hieros&#8221; meaning &#8220;sacred&#8221; and &#8220;glyphein&#8221; meaning &#8220;to carve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/ancient-maya-city-discovered-mexican-jungle-2023-06-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Ancient Maya city discovered in a Mexican jungle<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Mayan city is located in the Balamku ecological reserve on the country&#8217;s Yucatan Peninsula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}