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Gateway to Kinich Kakmo

Entering from the street (Calle 27) to the complex of this great pyramid, which the Spanish didn't bother to deconstruct when they arrived in the 16th century and (tried to) destroy the Maya culture they found here. The stairway leads to a 2-acre platform that looks out over the city and the surrounding landscape. Atop that is yet another pyramid, as you can see in preceding images. This doorway takes you from "yellow, Colonial Izamal" into the ancient unpainted Maya past, although we know from archaeologists and Maya paintings that the ancient world was highly pigmented, too. Centuries of weathering has removed most of that one-time color. Read more, en español, here: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinich_Kakmó

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