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Maya pyramid where celestial precision meets sacred stone on the Yucatán plain

Decoration drawings and actual stone relief carvings depicting an eagle (left) and a jaguar (right) consuming human hearts at the side panel of the Platform of the Eagles and the Jaguars, Chichén Itzá
Decoration drawings and actual stone relief carvings depicting an eagle (left) and a jaguar (right) consuming human hearts at the side panel of the Platform of the Eagles and the Jaguars, Chichén… © 1A - 'Temple of the Eagles' Relief Carving. Chi-chen (sic) Itza. (8289085004).jpg: SMU Central University Libraries Eagle relief carving panel Chichen Itza 03 2011 1442.jpg: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) *Jaguar relief carving Chichen Itza 03 2011 1443.jpg: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) derivate work:Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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