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| | Tikal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The name "Tikal" means "Place of Voices" or "Place of Tounges" in Maya, which may be an ancient name for the city, although the ancient heiroglyphs usually refer to it as Mutal or Yax Mutal, meaning "Green Bundle", and perhaps metaphorically "First Prophescy". |
 | | Chak Toh Ich’ak I ("Jaguar Paw I") c.360 - 378 - His palace, unusually, was never built over by later rulers, and was kept in repair for centuries as an apparent revered monument |
 | | Nun Yax Ayin, a noble from Teotihuacan, was installed on Tikal's throne in 379, ruled to 411 |
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