Sentence examples for ceremonial platforms from inspiring English sources
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.
In this sense, the ceremonial platforms denominated ushnus were spaces with particular significance and high hierarchy.
In the past, archaeologists proposed that a lost civilization chopped down all the trees to make paths to roll the megalithic structures horizontally for miles on top of palm trees used as "rolling logs" of sorts, from the quarries where they were created to ceremonial platforms.
But Peter Frost, a British-born explorer and mountain guide, surmised that the perch would have made a perfect ceremonial platform for Inca rulers.
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.
The Pink Structure (Estructura Rosada) was a small ceremonial platform built upon the central axis of Structure 7 before the latter was erected over it.
Structures included monumental stone buildings, circular ceremonial plazas, and rectangular platform mounds.
Residential structures built on platforms around the ceremonial plazas usually had built-in benches and hearths.
And it has been choreographed by Marc Robin with a ceremonial style on a square platform that seems impossibly constraining but turns out not to be.
