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'''Edzna''' is [[Campeche]]'s most visited Mayan ruins. Is one of the ([[Mexico]])'s archaeological treasure. Edzna, founded around 600 to 300 B. C., appears to have been one of the earliest major Mayan urban center. It was discovered by Nazario Quintana Bello in 1927. Edzna is a Mayan name which means "House of the Visages". This ruins are located 38 miles southeast of Campeche.
'''Edzna''' is [[Campeche]]'s most visited Mayan ruins. Is one of the ([[Mexico]])'s archaeological treasure. Edzna, founded around 600 to 300 B. C., appears to have been one of the earliest major Mayan urban center. It was discovered by Nazario Quintana Bello in 1927. Edzna is a Mayan name which means "House of the Visages". This ruins are located 38 miles southeast of Campeche.
''On the two days of the year when the sun is vertically overhead at noon, the stone disk ensures that the entireshaft is in shadow; on all other days, a stripe of sunlight will fall across the shaft. As a result, there can be little doubt that the priests of Edzná had an accurate gauge on thetiming of the sun's zenithal passage.'' VINCENT H. MALMSTRÖM from Dartmouth College.
''On the two days of the year when the sun is vertically overhead at noon, the stone disk ensures that the entireshaft is in shadow; on all other days, a stripe of sunlight will fall across the shaft. As a result, there can be little doubt that the priests of Edzná had an accurate gauge on thetiming of the sun's zenithal passage.'' VINCENT H. MALMSTRÖM from Dartmouth College.
This and other critical astronomical associations that can be found here make some speculate that Edzna ''was not only one the earliest true urbanized places of the Maya, but also most likely the birth-place of their modified version of the calendar and the seat of the oldest lunar observatory in the Mesoamerican realm''. ([http://www.dartmouth.edu/~izapa/M-25.pdf |MALMSTRÖM])
This and other critical astronomical associations that can be found here make some scholars speculate that Edzna ''was not only one the earliest true urbanized places of the Maya, but also most likely the birth-place of their modified version of the calendar and the seat of the oldest lunar observatory in the Mesoamerican realm''. ([http://www.dartmouth.edu/~izapa/M-25.pdf |MALMSTRÖM])
== See also ==
== See also ==