Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine July 2019 | Page 88

This is the site where it is believed the famous crystal skull, carved from an 8” cube of
rock crystal was found.
With no mortar to bind them, the structures at this Maya site, the largest in southern
Belize, are all made from limestone blocks. Thought to have been an 800AD classic
ceremonial center, the modern Maya named this site Lubaantun, meaning "place of
the fallen rocks" due to the ground subsiding and some of the un-mortared blocks
having tumbled out of position.
This site is located about 2 miles from the village of San Pedro Columbia, a Maya
Classic period site known for its ceramic whistle figurines, stair-like architecture and
three ball courts.
Lubaantun