Sentence examples for ceremonial platform from inspiring English sources

But Peter Frost, a British-born explorer and mountain guide, surmised that the perch would have made a perfect ceremonial platform for Inca rulers.

At the heart of the complex is a great ushnu, a ceremonial platform the Incas used to show their dominance of an area.

With a production style full of flourishes both orchestral and choral, it's a ceremonial platform for Mr. Mann's voice, which skews glossier but hardly less gallant than Mr. Groban's.

During the most recent excavation, underneath a small plaza wedged between the Templo Mayor and the cathedral, Mr. Barrera had been looking for the round ceremonial platform because it had been described in the Sahagún record.

The sight of these towering figures on their original ceremonial platform, or ahu, begins to suggest the magnificence Roggeveen saw, when hundreds of such statues skirted the island, facing inland, worshiped by the islanders as sacred chiefs and divine ancestors.

Grover Cleveland pushed a button on a ceremonial platform in front of the Administration Building and set the great Allis engine in motion, turning on the electric power for the exposition.

In this sense, the ceremonial platforms denominated ushnus were spaces with particular significance and high hierarchy.

About 9 miles (15 km) east of Retalhuleu is one of the oldest archaeological sites in Guatemala Abaj Takalik where excavations have uncovered temples, ceremonial platforms, and ceramics of the Olmec civilization.

The trip includes a visit to the Maya sites of Caracol -- an ancient grouping of palaces, plazas and pyramids in Belize that are still being recovered from the jungle -- and Tikal, with its carved stelae, ceremonial platforms and temple pyramids, in Guatemala.

Then, the builders would have flattened the bases to stand the statues upright once they reached the ceremonial platforms.

Her research of 887 statues on Rapa Nui has found much more variation in this ratio, even in statues found in transit to their ceremonial platforms.