Naj Tunich is a cave site, located in the Peten region of Guatemala, which was used as a ritual place by the Classic period Maya. Discovered in 1979, the cave held an amazing library of hieroglyphs and drawings on its walls that, once translated, played a role in the revision of how scholars perceived Maya society.
There are 94 drawings in the cave, and they illustrate a huge range of subjects, including geometric designs, birds, humans and supernatural beings, bloodletting (as shown in the illustration above), the Mesoamerican ballgame, and acts of warfare. Read all about it in contributing witer Nicoletta Maestri's latest article, Naj Tunich.
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I’d love to see as many of the paintings in Naj Tunich as possible. Is there a site on the Web that contains lots of these?