For convenient reference, Andrews’ plan of the Bat Palace again. Room 3: I was looking more carefully at Room 3 of the Bat Palace last night. I’m intrigued with it because it of its raw ratio between total height (room ht 258 cm + vault height 1.67 m = 4.25 m) and length of 6.76Continue reading “Bat Palace, Tikal: Further Explorations”
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The Bat Palace, Room 10
In the previous post, we looked at the layout and basic data for the rooms of the Bat Palace at Tikal, and explored the question of this Mayan structure’s mysteriously recurring width measurement of 1.73 m. In my experience, such redundancy in Mayan designs is rare, suggesting the measure recurs because the architect has anContinue reading “The Bat Palace, Room 10”
A Breakthrough at the Bat Palace at Tikal?
Talking about some of the wondrous mathematical discoveries made at Tikal (that is, working with data from Tikal) tends to make me wistful for the site. One should hope to find more of their splendid “Wonder Numbers” lying about in the architecture. I’m skeptical that we’ve found all of them. From the data that IContinue reading “A Breakthrough at the Bat Palace at Tikal?”
Luke Piwalker 