{"id":830,"date":"2019-08-11T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T10:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site70.blogs.americavip.com\/2019\/08\/11\/uaxactun\/"},"modified":"2019-08-11T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T10:24:47","slug":"uaxactun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/en\/2019\/08\/11\/uaxactun\/","title":{"rendered":"Uaxact\u00fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_827\" style=\"width: 3514px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-827\" class=\"wp-image-827 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/71\/files\/sites\/71\/2019\/08\/Guatemala-VIP-Uaxactun-02.jpg\" alt=\"Uaxact\u00fan\" width=\"3504\" height=\"2336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/71\/files\/sites\/71\/2019\/08\/Guatemala-VIP-Uaxactun-02.jpg 3504w, http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/71\/files\/sites\/71\/2019\/08\/Guatemala-VIP-Uaxactun-02-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/71\/files\/sites\/71\/2019\/08\/Guatemala-VIP-Uaxactun-02-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/71\/files\/sites\/71\/2019\/08\/Guatemala-VIP-Uaxactun-02-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3504px) 100vw, 3504px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uaxact\u00fan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Uaxact\u00fan \u2013 located 24 km. outside of Tikal, Uaxact\u00fan is considered one of the oldest<br \/>\ncities in the Mayan Empire, dating from the pre-classic and classical periods. The<br \/>\narchitectural evolution of the Mayan lowlands is evident, and one can find inscriptions<br \/>\nthat date from 328 A.D. to 899 A.D. in different stone columns.<br \/>\nThis Mayan city began to be rediscovered and studied from 1931 when the first formal<br \/>\nworks were carried out by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. It received the name<br \/>\nof Uaxact\u00fan or \u201ceight Stones\u201d by Sylvanus Morley, the first investigator to arrive here,<br \/>\ncrossing Nak\u00fam, Naranjo and Yaxha. The word Uaxact\u00fan is composed of \u201cUaxac\u201d,<br \/>\nwhich means eight and \u201cTun\u201d, which means \u201cstone\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uaxact\u00fan \u2013 located 24 km. outside of Tikal, Uaxact\u00fan is considered one of the oldest cities in the Mayan Empire, dating from the pre-classic and classical periods. The architectural evolution of the Mayan lowlands is evident, and one can find inscriptions that date from 328 A.D. to 899 A.D. in different stone columns. This Mayan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recreation","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.guatemalavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}