
	Where results make sense

Topic: Dos Pilas

Related Topics

Piedras Negras, Guatemala

Coba

760

El Mirador

Tikal

Peten

Uaxactun

Altun Ha

Changan

Palenque

Uxmal

Teotihuacan

Mesoamerican chronology

Caracol, Belize

Chichen Itza

In the News (Sat 14 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Peten Journey
		Dos Pilas was so reviled by its subservient states that together they rose up and attacked and overwhelmed Dos Pilas, not before the inhabitants were able to dismantle much of the superstructure on the temples and palaces to build a palisade, or defensive wall around the main plaza.
		Dos Pilas was not to be so easily defeated and the nobility escaped to Aguateca, which served as its final capital, a veritable "Masada" fortress atop a mesa surrounded by fault scars in the bedrock up to 250 feet deep.
		But the enemies of Dos Pilas were not to be dissuaded from their task of killing a city, and Aguateca was somehow stormed and taken in a bitter battle.
	www.mostlymaya.com /PetenJourney.html (2313 words)

	Giant War
		Dos Pilas was first established in A.D. 629 as a military stronghold of Tikal.
		Dos Pilas was important to Tikal and later to Calakmul because it strengthened their clout at the southern edge of the Maya lowlands, which was a major gateway for trade.
		Demarest thinks the warfare described in the Dos Pilas inscriptions may reflect a period when the Maya civilization was on the verge of moving to a higher level of organization and consolidating into a single empire.
	aeroman.de /html/giant_war.html (1353 words)

	Dos Pilas
		Dos Pilas was a Mayan military outpost of the city of Tikal founded in 629.
		Dos Pilas was later sacked by invaders from the rival city state of Kalakmul[?], who reinstalled the king as a puppet ruler.
		Ongoing conflict in the region soon destabilised the power following the defeat of their Kalakmul allies and in 760 the city was abandoned.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/do/Dos_Pilas.html (127 words)

	Mesoweb Reports
		It was already known from Hieroglyphic Stairway 4 and the extant portions of Hieroglyphic Stairway 2 that B'alaj Chan K'awiil of Dos Pilas was the vassal of the king of Calakmul and that both Calakmul and Dos Pilas had warred against Nuun Ujol Chaak, the king of Tikal.
		This together with the fact that rulers of Dos Pilas and Tikal identified themselves with the same "emblem glyph" led scholars to deduce that Dos Pilas was founded by a breakaway faction of Tikal nobility under the auspices of Calakmul during the turbulent era following Calakmul's defeat of Tikal in AD 562.
		The possibility that the Dos Pilas polity was deliberately founded as a safe haven for the Tikal royal lineage since the defeat of 562 or because [of] the family need to secure a sourthern flank in the region is very strong since Tikal's interest in the southwest Petén was strong during that time (online report).
	www.mesoweb.com /reports/Dos_Pilas.html (565 words)

	Rescuing the Origins of Dos Pilas Dynasty: - Federico Fahsen
		Dos Pilas Stairway 4, Step 3 has a date of 4 AK’BAL 11 MUWAAHN (9.12.1.0.3 or 672) which fits nicely in the sequence of dates in this section of Stairway 2 and relates the same star war against Dos Pilas by Tikal’s ruler.
		Dos Pilas Ruler 1 again uses de "ba-ca-ba" warrior title and further does not acknowledge NUUN(u) JOL CHAK with a royal kingly title but calls the victims "from the Tikal place" thereby maintaining his claims to rulership and legitimacy.
		Although Dos Pilas Panel 7 relates that ba-la-ja CHAN K’AWIIL "witnessed" or "saw" the accession ceremony of a Calakmul ruler, presumably as a guest in that site in 686, there is no evidence that he went to Calakmul four tun earlier again.
	www.famsi.org /reports/01098/interim/section07.htm (2033 words)

	CNEWS Science - New hieroglyph translation discloses unknown war between Maya city states
		Dos Pilas was established as a military outpost of the great Maya city of Tikal in AD 629, and the king of Tikal placed his young brother on the throne of the new city.
		Instead, the step writings say the king of Dos Pilas grew up to become a great warrior and for many years was an ally of his brother in Tikal.
		Dos Pilas then launched a campaign of conquest with Calakmul's backing and became a major regional power.
	www.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Science/2002/09/19/314.html (776 words)

	Archaeological Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dos Pilas is located along the Pasion River in Guatemala, and is so named for the two tank-shaped puddles which are close to each other within the area.
		He was to be the last King of Dos Pilas, for the city of Tamarindito (captured by the second king) gained its independence.
		This led to the collapse of the empire and Dos Pilas.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/south_america/dos_pilas.html (502 words)

	dos pilas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dos Pilas is a late Classic site inhabited from around 600 to 760 A.D. At the site there are two concentric walls and 16 well preserved carved stelae, other carvings and a network of caves has been found.
		The stelae at Dos Pilas tell us that in the late Classic its rulers resorted to warfare in order to expand their domains in the region.
		This may be the same information recorded at Aguateca, and it proclaims the victory of the Lord of Pilas over Seibal on the third of December, 735 A.D. It is thought that Dos Pilas was abandoned due to these constant wars.
	www.freedom8.net /more/ddospilasmain.htm (245 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first piece of evidence is an impressive staircase, found in Dos Pilas: “five limestone steps, about 20 feet wide, each with two rows of pristine glyphs carved like little puffy pillows on the risers, climb to the base of the royal palace near the main plaza” (Demarest 1993: 97).
		Demarest believes this wall was built as a defensive measure: “less than a hundred years after memorializing their founder, the people of Dos Pilas threw a wall up over his monument in what must have been a desperate attempt to protect themselves” (Demarest 1993: 98).
		Not only do these teeth studies show that disease was not a crucial component of Maya depopulation, but they also imply “an improvement in nutritional environment” prior to the collapse (Wright 271).
	home.wi.rr.com /ritacheng/erika/RiseFall3.doc (1343 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It begins on the central section of the pyramid’s stairway with the birth of a king, Balaj Chan K’awiil, on Oct. 15, 625, and the establishment of Dos Pilas as a military outpost by the great city of Tikal, about 70 miles to the northeast, in 629.
		Dos Pilas was important to Tikal for its proximity to the middle stretch of the Pasi๓n River, the superhighway of the Maya world.
		A stronghold in Dos Pilas allowed Tikal to exert control over this major trade route between the highlands and lowlands for coveted items such as jade, obsidian, quetzal feathers, and shells from the Caribbean.
	www.sac.or.th /newvicha/new204.htm (836 words)

	Step by Step, Bloody Tale of Maya Conquest
		The leaders of the Maya cities of Tikal and Dos Pilas were brothers, and historians have long believed that rivalry between them was at the root of conflict between
		Dos Pilas is deep in the Guatemalan jungle near the Pasion River, which was the superhighway of the Maya world.
		Dos Pilas then embarked on a campaign of conquest and became a major regional power.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /maya/dos-pilas.htm (935 words)

	Untitled
		To reemphasize an earlier point, the numerical structure put in place by the Dos Pilas date on Stela 16 (and on Aguateca Stela 2) is true and apparent and unchanged no matter what correlation number might be applied to the location of the zero base-day in the Maya Long Count notation.
		Moving the count forward from this Dos Pilas position the prescribed number of days (7,280), the base-day position of the Dresden Codex Eclipse Table is reached at 9.16.4.10.8 12 Lamat 1 Muan.
		The lunar eclipse on 12 Lamat 1 Muan is mathematically inevitable in the context of the Dos Pilas inscription because 7,280 is a valid eclipse calculation number.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/9976/mayan18.html (1094 words)

	13 Oct History: This Date
		Tikal founded an outpost at Dos Pilas, some 115 km to the southwest, and, on 25 June 629 (9.9.16.6.13, 7 ben 16 xul), Balaj Chan K'awiil was brought to live there, and, on 9.10.2.7.17, 7 caban 10 xul (18 June 635), is crowned as its first ruler.
		The glyphs provide new evidence that Dos Pilas was established as a military outpost by Tikal, about 70 miles to the northeast of Dos Pilas, and was never a major city or independent power.
		The inscriptions on the steps report that after the Dos Pilas victory over Tikal, "Blood flowed and skulls of the 13 peoples of the Tikal place were piled up." Then the glyphs record that late in his life, the Dos Pilas king did a "victory dance" with Calakmul's king, his ally.
	h42day.100megsfree5.com /history/h4oct/h4oct13.html (9312 words)

	Newly revealed hieroglyphs tell story of superpower conflict in the Maya world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Translation of recently unearthed hieroglyphic stairs on an ancient Maya pyramid in Guatemala provides dramatic evidence that two great Maya city-states and their allies were locked in a brutal superpower struggle that may have set the stage for the later collapse of the classic Maya civilization.
		As told by the glyphs, Balaj Chan K'awiil was installed as ruler of Dos Pilas by Tikal at the age of four.
		After capturing Balaj Chan K'awiil, Calakmul put him back on the Dos Pilas throne as a "puppet king" who was allowed to keep his land in exchange for allegiance.
	www.brightsurf.com /EDU_news_092002_b.html (1008 words)

	Exploring News & Features - Newly Revealed Hieroglyphs Tell Story of Superpower Conflict in the Maya World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hieroglyphs from one of the stairs in the Dos Pilas pyramid.
		Fahsen now believes Dos Pilas was part of a dramatic superpower struggle that may have contributed to the collapse of the Maya civilization.
		The stairway's east section moves on to tell of a "star war" attack - under the dominance of Venus - on Dos Pilas by the king of the major power center of Calakmul in 658 and Balaj Chan K'awiil's flight to the city known today as Aguateca.
	exploration.vanderbilt.edu /news/features/dos_pilas/news_dospilas_glyphs.htm (559 words)

	Guatemala Links
		Dos Lunas is about a 25 minute walk from the airport.
		Dos Lunas will be about a mile down (south) this road (the runway will be to the left of this road, separated by a wall).
		Look for 21 Calle and Dos Lunas will be a block down this road on the left (south) side on the corner of the street.
	www.mostlymaya.com /2Guatemala.html (1879 words)

	Stairway Leads To Mayan History
		Dos Pilas was an important outpost controlling trade on the Pasion River, a major route between the highlands and lowlands.
		There are tales of pooled blood, piles of skulls and the kings of Dos Pilas and Calakmul doing a victory dance.
		Now it seems that Dos Pilas was a pawn in an ongoing conflict between the major powers.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/41/207.html (474 words)

	King IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This memorial is from 730 and represents the members of the court in Dos Pilas.
		Also mentioned is that the ceremony took place at the Central Marketplace in Dos Pilas.
		It is assumed that the last inhabitants of Dos Pilas tried to destroy it.
	www.didrichsenmuseum.fi /maya/e_kuninkaat_4.htm (316 words)

	Dos Pilas -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Dos Pilas was the centre of a Mayan kingdom that at the height of its hegemony covered an area of some 1,500 square miles (3,885 square km).
		Archaeologists working at the Dos Pilas site in 1991 discovered the tomb of a king—as yet known only as Ruler 2 (reigned c.
		Although practiced for centuries, tae kwon do underwent a tremendous revival after World War II as part of a national effort to instill patriotism and unity.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9031003?tocId=9031003 (741 words)

	Dos Pilas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dos Pilas' Ruler I set out to make a name for himself.
		By the era of Dos Pilas' Ruler II, war was waged to gain territory and build empires with each king being more aggressive than the last.
		Ruler IV was the last ruler of Dos Pilas due to disgruntled and restless sectors of the empire revolting, overthrowing Ruler IV, and causing the collapse of Dos Pilas.
	www.lindakreft.com /dospilas.html (144 words)

	hist1005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is one of the longest Mayan texts ever found, but archaeologists say it is even more important because it provides the strongest evidence yet of a century-long superpower war that may have spawned the greatest achievements of the Maya even as it sowed the seeds of their downfall.
		Dos Pilas Mayan is similar to the modern-day Cholon group of languages spoken by indigenous Guatemalans in the Peten.
		"From the beginning Dos Pilas was a predatory state, founded by Tikal as a military base and put in a secure spot from which to attack other centers and stabilize the area," Demarest said.
	nativenewsonline.org /history/hist1005a.html (1624 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Mayan texts reveal superpower wars
		"In today's terms, Dos Pilas was the Somalia or Vietnam of the Maya world, used in a war that was actually between two superpowers," he told the magazine of the National Geographic Society, which part-funded the new research.
		Dos Pilas is 113 kilometres northeast of Tikal.
		His brother and other members of the nobility were taken to Dos Pilas to be executed.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn2821 (498 words)

	Dos Pilas
		The ruler of Dos Pilas died in the first battle.
		Dos Pilas was more prepared than last time they had a new ruler and they had protective walls to protect the people from intruders.
		The second and third rulers of Dos Pilas changed the purpose of warfare.
	members.tripod.com /elpage23/newpage3.htm (192 words)

	Maya Hieroglyphs Recount "Giant War" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stone hieroglyphs are exposed on the stairs of an ancient pyramid at the Maya ruin of Dos Pilas.
		Federico Fahsen, an expert in the interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs, said the text carved into the staircase of a pyramid at Dos Pilas in Guatemala is unusual because it documents not only the city's triumphs but also its setbacks and tragedies.
		• The east section of the staircase describes a "star war" attack on Dos Pilas by the king of Calakmul—so called because the attack was influenced by astrological movements and the dominance of Venus.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/09/0917_020919_pilas.html (991 words)

	Guatemalaweb.com
		An archaeological site ten-and-a-half miles (17 km.) southwest of the municipality of Sayaxché, in the department of Petén, Dos Pilas was named after two adjacent springs in the form of water tanks.
		Dos Pilas has 16 carved stelae, 19 altars, 19 panels, 14 miscellaneous stones, a hieroglyphic bench, and 4 hieroglyphic stairways.
		The most beautiful sculpture of Dos Pilas is Panel 10, known as the Red Stela because it retains red, blue, and yellow colored stucco.
	www.guatemalaweb.com /2/maps/ruins.htm (2811 words)

	Search Results for dos - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Dos Pilas was the centre of a Mayan kingdom that at the height of...
		It lies in the interior uplands, at the foot of the 2,953-foot (900-metre) Chapada do Araripe.
		Juàzeiro do Norte and the nearby city of...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=dos&ct=&fuzzy=N (441 words)

	Free Arabi العربي الحر
		Sept. 18 — A bitter war between rival Maya city-states may have set the stage for the collapse of that once-great civilization, say scientists who translated recently found hieroglyphics on stone stairs in an ancient pyramid in Guatemala.
		Demarest said he had not been able to contact Martin and Grube to tell them of the find because they are doing field work.
		actor as previously thought, it now appears that Dos Pilas was a pawn in a much bigger battle,” said Demarest.
	www.freearabi.com /MayaCivilization.htm (762 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Newly found hieroglyphs tell of great Mayan war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		WASHINGTON — A bitter war between rival Maya city-states may have set the stage for the collapse of that once-great civilization, say scientists who translated recently found hieroglyphics on stone stairs in an ancient pyramid in Guatemala.
		Archaeologist Arthur Demarest, left, and Maya expert Federico Fahsen, both of Vanderbilt University, sit on newly unearthed hieroglyphic stairs in a pyramid at Dos Pilas.
		His forces sacked Tikal and brought its ruler — his own brother — and other Tikal nobles to Dos Pilas to be sacrificed.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,405031723,00.html (813 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)