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The Maya Bridge at Yaxchilan was a suspension bridge believed to have been built by the Maya across the Usumacinta River, Chiapas, Mexico. If so, it would...

Yaxchilan (pronounced [ʝaʃtʃiˈlan]) is an ancient Maya city located on the bank of the Usumacinta River in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. In the Late Classic...

America (see Maya Bridge at Yaxchilan). Simple suspension bridges using iron chains are also documented in Tibet and China. One bridge on the upper Yangtze...

longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e., the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers). The length...

James A. (2005). "Computer Modeling of the Seventh Century Maya Suspension Bridge at Yaxchilan". Computing in Civil Engineering (2005). Vol. 179. p. 124...

Childeric I, Tournai, Belgium. Late 7th century – First suspension bridge, Maya Bridge at Yaxchilan 800 – The streets of Baghdad are paved with tar.[citation needed]...

Presumed Maya Bridge at Yaxchilan. If it was actually a bridge, it would be the longest one discovered in the ancient world. Baluarte Bridge Chiapas Bridge El...

cities of Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras, and Palenque, following a path from south to north. Toward the end of the late Classic period, the Maya stopped recording...

ISBN 978-0-8021-3797-5. "Mexico's Yaxchilan Ruin". Mayan Ruins. Retrieved 24 November 2020. Martin, Simon; Grube, Nikolai (2000). Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens...

Suspension bridge – the ancient Maya constructed a suspension bridge over the Usumacinta River in Yaxchilan. This Maya Bridge at Yaxchilan would have...

the world, all categories, that at least have the strength to carry some persons. It can be the span of any type of bridge, aerial tramway, power line, structural...

Weasel' pleased the lords of death immensely. Dance in Maya culture has also acted as a bridge between the ancient and post-Columbian eras. Spanish missionaries...

890-acre) Lacantun Reserve, which includes the Classic Maya archaeological sites of Yaxchilan and Bonampak, was added to the biosphere reserve. Agua Azul...

[pa'leŋke]; Yucatec Maya: Bàakʼ [ɓaːkʼ]), also anciently known in the Itza Language as Lakamhaʼ ("Big Water or Big Waters"), was a Maya city state in southern...

the work at Chichen Itza, Morley also took on responsibilities which extended Carnegie-sponsored fieldwork to other Maya sites, such as Yaxchilan, Coba,...

described in European historical accounts of the time. A few, such as the Maya civilization, kept written records, but due to many Christian Europeans of...

of Aztec goddess Coatlicue Xochipilli Olmec colossal head Lintel 26, Yaxchilan Ceramic of the Jaina Island Zapotec mask of the Bat God Olmec wrestler...

city developed between 800 and 1100 AD, contemporary with Palenque and Yaxchilan. The name of the site comes from Nahuatl and means place of comals (a...

art (in this case Maya) – Yaxchilan Lintel 24 (702 AD), limestone, British Museum, London Pre-Columbian influences (in this case Maya) – Interior detail...

Aubin and Codex Kingsborough, a spectacular series of Mayan lintels from Yaxchilan excavated by the British Mayanist Alfred Maudslay, a very high quality...