Game of the King of Maya time

A stone column that seemed to be inanimate was still enough to convey thrilling details about the power struggle through many generations of ancient Maya.

Discovered underneath a Mayan temple in Guatemala, the characters and drawings on a 1,450-year-old stone pillar helped uncover the thrilling story of a power struggle over generations of dynasties. Ancient Maya, like a real-life version of the current popular drama The kingship game.

NBC News quoted anthropologist David Freidel (of Washington University in St. Louis), saying he and his foreign colleagues have unearthed the stone pillar in March at the El Peru-Waka archaeological site, in the north. Guatemala. El Peru-Waka acts as one of the centers of power of the Mayan culture more than a millennium ago. The researchers determined that the stone pillar, named Stela 44 , was erected in 564.

Stela 44 pillar carries expensive details of ancient Maya history - (Photo: NBC)

The carvings on the pillar indicate that it appeared in the life of King Wa'oom Uch'ab Tzi'kin, in honor of his father, King Chak Took Ich'aak (nicknamed Sweeping Red), losing that way. 8 years. The monument also mentions a queen, Mrs. Ikoom, who seems to be the King of the King of the Red Claw. Freidel said the inscriptions on the Stela 44 column showed that Ms. Ikoom used a monument to strengthen the family's power in El Peru-Waka.

This is the time when the details like in the game of kingship are revealed. At one point, El Peru-Waka was the kingdom trapped between the era and the existence of two Maya super powers: the Tikal dynasty, and the dominance of Snake Lords, the Snake Gods. Based on what is recorded in Stela 44, connected with other folk stories about Maya, King Claw Loe Red is a vassal of Tikal, while Mrs. Ikoom comes from the lineage of the Snake Gods. Between 556 and 564, Maya politics underwent a major turning point, the Lord of the Snakes increasingly gained the pinnacle of power while the Tikal dynasty receded. Expert Freidel surmised that King Voss Loe Red may have been ordered to assassinate by the ruler of Tikal in 556, and the result of that scandal may have contributed to the collapse of Tikal himself. This king, Wak Chan K'awiil, was brought to the gods by Snake king in 562.

According to analyst Freidel, Ikoom used Stela 44 to send a message of consolidation of power after King Tikal was executed for about two years. The inscriptions on the stone pillar emphasize her son's reign in Waka through the connections of her father to the Tikal dynasty, while pointing out the close connection with the lineage of her Snake Gods. She pointed out that after killing Loe Red, King Tikal also lost his life at the hands of the Snake Gods. Ms. Ikoom is considered a real-life version of the Dragon Queen in the film, named Daenarys Targaryen, the wife of the king of the Stark dynasty. She also set up a monument to establish a position in front of Lannister's house, once an ally with the Stark family but later turned hostile.

When discovered, Stela 44 was in ruin, and expert Freidel speculated that the pillar had been dug to move elsewhere, probably in the 7th century, when another king of the Tikal dynasty Acquiring the area, including Waka. However, the new king of Tikal did not gain long approval. The Alliance of the Snake Gods won Waka, one of the most important figures of the time, Mrs. K'abel, who was called Waka's "Supreme Commander" . Last year, Freidel and co-workers were shown evidence that Ms. K'abel was as powerful as the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, as well as the queen of Daenarys in the Imperial Games series.

It is still too early to confirm all the hypotheses given by Freidel about Stela 44. More research is needed before the dramatic story is accepted as historical data.