Source: WTL© digital photograph taken on site on an unusually beautiful morning at Tikal (2008).
Comments: We have just walked around the left (south) side of the back of the pyramid we saw in the previous image, seen here on the right side of this photo (<= Tikal #7). The structures in the north side of the Great Plaza are known as the North Acropolis. The standing stones on the lawn are stelae standing over circular stone altars at their base. These stelae mark the burial sites of successive great lords (rulers) of Tikal. Lower levels of this unusually complicated Mayan site date to 100 BCE or earlier.
HUM 2461: The architectural style in this image is classified as "traditional Maya style".