Lady Twelve Macaw
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Lady Twelve Macaw was a Mayan
Queen of Tikal
as a wife of the King Jasaw Chan K'awiil I. She was a mother of the King Yik'in Chan K'awiil
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Tikal Temple II
- Temple of the Masks - was built for her. Temple had a single wooden sculpted lintel that bears the portrait of the queen.
She died in 704.
Maya civilization
The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...
Queen of Tikal
Tikal
Tikal is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centres of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archaeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now northern Guatemala...
as a wife of the King Jasaw Chan K'awiil I. She was a mother of the King Yik'in Chan K'awiil
Yik'in Chan K'awiil
Yik'in Chan K'awiil was a Mayan ruler in the Late Classic period of the city-state polity centred at Tikal, a major pre-Columbian Maya site in the Petén Basin region .-Biography:Identified by Mayanist epigraphers as the 27th ruler in Tikal's dynastic succession, Yik'in Chan...
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Tikal Temple II
Tikal Temple II
Tikal Temple II is a Mesoamerican pyramid at the Maya archaeological site of Tikal in the Petén Department of northern Guatemala. The temple was built in the Late Classic Period in a style reminiscent of the Early Classic...
- Temple of the Masks - was built for her. Temple had a single wooden sculpted lintel that bears the portrait of the queen.
She died in 704.