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Solstices brought Mayan communities together, using monuments shaped by science and religion – and kingly ambitions, too

  • Written by Gerardo Aldana, Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Solstices brought Mayan communities together, using monuments shaped by science and religion – and kingly ambitions, tooAn "E-Group" construction at the ancient Maya site of Caracol, in present-day Belize.Gerardo Aldana

K’ahk’ Uti’ Witz’ K’awiil knew his history.

For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near today’s border between Honduras and Guatemala. From the fifth century C.E. into the...

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