Used for sacrificial rituals.
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The Mayan temple of Tikal is an observatory used to look at different stars, planets, and constellations.
culture and heritage
Guatemala
The Mayan temples can reach up to about 47 meters high or 150 feet.
It is unsure where the long chain of Mayan kings lived but it was most likely in a hut built on top of one of their temples. Whenever a king would die they would burn their body and put the ashes into a gold tomb in the temple.