Ancient Guatemalan city now World Heritage Site

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1 年前

STORY: Location: El Asintal, Guatemala

This ancient city has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Tak'alik Ab'aj was first occupied around 800 BC

It was one of Guatemala's most important economic

and cultural centers during pre-Columbian times

(Patricio Zambrano, UNESCO representative)

“This site has exceptional universal values. And within these exceptional values, we must highlight the genius creative human work, which is a work that allows us to show the unique and exceptional testimony of a cultural tradition or a disappeared civilization.”