The Ambassadors' Platform

This area at Edzná is formed by several buildings set in an irregular manner. Partial exploration of some of them identified two construction periods. The arch or passageway on the south side was actually a room that lost its outside walls. In the western section, two elongated constructions with columns formed of drums and bases with sloping walls correspond to the Early Postclassic, from 1000 to 1250 A.D. The area has been named the Patio of the Ambassadors as a show of good will to the many foreign ambassadors who have visited Edzná because of the program that, since 1986, employs Guatemalan refugees to restore the archaeology of the site.

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