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Northern Pole rotation above Tikal

by

S.Guisard/Novapix

Reference

t-nagma-90003

Date

2011-03-24

Tikal (or Tik'al according to the modern Mayan orthography) is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centres of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archaeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now northern Guatemala. In 1979 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.