To know how many centuries the splendor of the Mayan culture lasted in the classical period, it is necessary to take into account that it was presented, only in principle, from the year 250 to 900 AD
In such virtue, it lasted six and a half centuries. Mayan monuments dating back to 250 BC are quite rare, while failing to show the splendor of the classical period.
Mayan King of San José
Around the year 280-290 after Christ, monuments began to be built that record the political, social and religious history of the Maya.
It should be clarified that it is not only about monuments. During these years (280-290 after Christ) altars, stone plates and other artifacts appear in which it can be seen that they used what has been called "the long count."
This is a calendar system that was based on the multiples of a year of 360 days, and not 365.
Now, this calendar that incidentally was in force during all the centuries of the classical period of the Maya, shows a point of origin in the year 3114 BC.
In other words, they produced a backcounting or, in other words, that began long before the calendar itself was designed at the end of the third century of our era.
The classical period of the Maya is divided into two sub-periods: the early and the latter
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