The Last Days of a Maya Royal Court

Time: 8:00 pm til 9:30 pm

Location: Miami Science Museum, 3280 South Miami Avenue

Description: The site of El Perú (named Waká in inscriptions) was occupied for nearly a thousand years, and its people participated in many of the most famous events of the Maya Classic period. They saw the arrival of Siyaj’ K’ak’, the powerful general “from the west” whose conquests changed the course of Maya history; they were willing allies in the drive by Yuknoom Ch’een II, the great Snake king of Calakmul, to dominate the Maya Lowlands.

But in the end, as with all the cities of the Classic period, the reign of Waká’s divine kings came to a close in the first decades of the 9th Century CE. This lecture, by David F. Lee, Ph.D. – Waká Research Foundation, St. Louis, MO- presents some of the remarkable evidence uncovered at the city’s royal palace complex during more than four years of research with El Perú-Waká Archaeological Research Project.

FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.