Profile of Pakal the Great's jade death mask: Wow and also the 600th post on this thread??? That's a lot of Mayan art
Gorgeous Altar Q from Copan. Super important altar. Built in 776 AD, has a dynastic record of the first 16 kings of the city. Spoiler: Altar Q Copan Drawing from Linda Schele: Top of the altar:
Excellent. We're so lucky that any of that wood survived tbh. I've tried to replicate similar to the top of that altar on a small throne I've made, but then draped a fur over the bits which didn't work as well as i'd liked.
Artwork from the Temple of Tlahuizcalpatecuhtli, at Tula Looks like two snake-birds kissing a head, oooor it could just be a squashed front-perspective shot.
Most likely. I find a lot of random sketches of hers on pinterest, but whenever I am looking for something specific I always go to FAMSI. Endless amount of pictures here. Uxmal court from the sky, I have been there! Looks to be early morning, a lot of the mist is still hanging off in the distance.
Old article, but apparently liquid mercury was found in one of the tombs underneath Teotihuacan. Maybe they though it had magical properties? Like an elixir of life?
Yeah I use FAMSI for all my references for sculpting, mainly Palenque. A great loss, she was quite remarkable.
Stela 1 at the Mayan site of El Baul. Spoiler: Stela 1 El Baul Sketch What is cool about this stela is that it is the oldest known Long Count date (7.19.15.7.12, or 6 March 36 CE). If the Mayans were able to carve a date in the stone as early as 36 CE, it stands to reason that the calendar existed in written form, probably on bark paper books, long before this. And the concepts of the calendar were around probably even longer, potentially at least as far back as the fall of the Olmecs (~400 BC or sooner).
More Art from the Mayan site of El Baul. Lots of death/skull related stuff here. A ribcage! Spoiler: more El Baul pics
Read about this one from the LiDAR discoveries, a Mayan fortress-city on a mountain. Would love to see what other discoveries come out of this place! Name is La Cuernavilla (link to an article with the second picture, talks about how the lasers helped find these places) Also, a La Corona stela being excavated (also from the above link):