Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Tikal National Park' has mentioned 'Caracol' in the following places:
Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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[8][13] The city was located 100 kilometers (62xc2xa0mi) southeast of its great Classic Period rival, Calakmul, and 85 kilometers (53xc2xa0mi) northwest of Calakmul's ally Caracol, now in Belize. | WIKI |
The site, however, was often at war and inscriptions tell of alliances and conflict with other Maya states, including Uaxactun, Caracol, Naranjo and Calakmul. | WIKI |
The site was defeated at the end of the Early Classic by Caracol, which rose to take Tikal's place as the paramount center in the southern Maya lowlands. | WIKI |
In the mid 6th century, Caracol seems to have allied with Calakmul and defeated Tikal, closing the Early Classic. | WIKI |
[58] This hiatus in activity at Tikal was long unexplained until later epigraphic decipherments identified that the period was prompted by Tikal's comprehensive defeat at the hands of Calakmul and the Caracol polity in AD 562, a defeat that seems to have resulted in the capture and sacrifice of the king of Tikal. | WIKI |
[28] The badly eroded Altar 21 at Caracol described how Tikal suffered this disastrous defeat in a major war in April 562. | WIKI |
[59] It seems that Caracol was an ally of Calakmul in the wider conflict between that city and Tikal, with the defeat of Tikal having a lasting impact upon the city. | WIKI |
[60] After its great victory, Caracol grew rapidly and some of Tikal's population may have been forcibly relocated there. | WIKI |
[67] Calakmul tried to encircle Tikal within an area dominated by its allies, such as El Peru, Dos Pilas, and Caracol. | WIKI |
Its style and iconography is similar to that of Caracol, one of the more important of Tikal's enemies. | WIKI |
Many of the existing monuments preserve decorated surfaces, including stone carvings and mural paintings with hieroglyphic inscriptions, which illustrate the dynastic history of the city and its relationships with urban centres as far away as Teotihuacan and Calakmul in Mexico, Copan in Honduras or Caracol in Belize. | UNESCO |