Mayan Construction:
Building Style
The Mayan
architects did not build in right angles as we do today. They relied
heavily on bilateral symmetry. This means if you cut a building right
down the middle each half would look like a mirror image of the other side(Stuart
117). They would also build one temple over another(Benson 46).
There could be several temples under one pyramid. The pyramids became
very large in this way.
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