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Tikal (Tik’al in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruins of an ancient city found in a rainforest in Guatemala. Ambrosio Tut, a gum-sapper, reported the ruins to La Gaceta, a Guatemalan newspaper, which named the site Tikal. After the Berlin Academy of Sciences' magazine republished the report in 1853, archeologists and treasure hunters began visiting the forest. Today tourism to the site may help protect the rainforest. It is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archaeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now northern Guatemala. Situated in the department of El Petén, the site is part of Guatemala's Tikal National Park and in 1979 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Tikal was the capital of a conquest state that became one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient Maya. Though monumental architecture at the site dates back as far as the 4th century BC, Tikal reached its apogee during the Classic Period, c. 200 to 900 AD. During this time, the city dominated much of the Maya region politically, economically, and militarily, while interacting with areas throughout Mesoamerica such as the great metropolis of Teotihuacan in the distant Valley of Mexico. There is evidence that Tikal was conquered by Teotihuacan in the 4th century AD. Following the end of the Late Classic Period, no new major monuments were built at Tikal and there is evidence that elite palaces were burned. These events were coupled with a gradual population decline, culminating with the site’s abandonment by the end of the 10th century.
Tikal is the best understood of any of the large lowland Maya cities, with a long dynastic ruler list, the discovery of the tombs of many of the rulers on this list and the investigation of their monuments, temples and palaces.
Uses of Tikal:
- Tikal is the largest of the ancient ruined cities of the Maya civilization.
- Tikal the Echidna is a character in Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series.
- Tikal Records is a Guatemalan record label.
- Tikal (board game) is a popular German-style board game.
- Tikal (band) is a psychedelic trance musical project from France.
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was an Irish Sea ferry.
- Tikal (surname), a Czech surname
Tikal is a German-style board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 1999 by Ravensburger in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. The theme of the game is that of adventurers exploring parts of a Central American jungle in which artifacts and temples are discovered.
Tikal is a Czech surname. It may refer to:
- František Tikal, a Czechoslovak ice hockey player
- Václav Tikal, a Czechoslovak painter and ceramic artist
Usage examples of "tikal".
Her pet tamrink, Tikal, could often be found scampering through the rigging, nagging the sailors with its constant mimic.
Mama preda had her pet Tikal scamper ahead into the darkness to spy out any ambushes.
It did not take long until the glow that Tikal had seen became apparent.
Beyond the ruins of Tikal lay the jungle, a dense wall of brilliant green that hid a thousand other wonders.
And it did look like Tikal, only not the way it did when I left itthe way Maudslay photographed it.
I really did come to Tikal as a tourist, with a bunch of other tourists.
Mac grabbed the tour book and flipped through the pages until she found a schematic layout of Tikal and its various temples, palaces, plazas, hotels, concessions, and roads.
Jai recognized Barcala Tikal, the First Councilor, from the dossier he had studied.
Only now, so late in her life, had she found someone to share her heart, as Tikal shared her senses.
With this short farewell, Tikal bounded from her shoulder and over the fence.
They were alike enough Tikal might be able to detect what he was thinking.
Each was given a surname according to where they had been found: Tulate, Tikal, Coban, Dolores, Pasion, San Jose, and Livingston.
Coban could tell from his movements, Tikal had planned this for some time.
In hindsight, it did seem to him, that Tomas did resemble Tikal somewhat more than he did.
John Augustus Owens dug the cenote of Tikal with a low-yield neutron bomb.