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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya

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The up to date interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. On this book, two of the first central figures within the massive effort to decode the glyphs, Linda Schele and David Freidel, make this history to be had in all its detail. A Forest of Kings is the tale of Maya kingship, from the beginning of its institution and the first great pyramid builders two thousand years ago to the decline of Maya civilization and its destruction by the Spanish. Here the great historic rulers of pre-Columbian civilization come to life again with the decipherment in their writing. At its height, Maya civilization flourished under great kings like Shield-Jaguar, who ruled for more than sixty years, expanding his kingdom and building probably the most most impressive works of architecture within the ancient world. Long placed on a mist-shrouded pedestal as austere, peaceful stargazers, the Maya elites are referred to now to have been the rulers of populous, aggressive city-states.

Hailed as “a Rosetta stone of Maya civilization” (Brian M. Fagan, writer of People of the Earth), A Forest of Kings is “a should for interested readers,” says Evon Vogt, professor of anthropology at Harvard University.

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