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== The Maya in Tomb Raider ==
 
== The Maya in Tomb Raider ==
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=== Tomb Raider: Underworld ===
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There are a lot of Maya influences visible in the [[Mexico|Mexican]] levels of [[Tomb Raider: Underworld]], e.g. the [[Maya Calendar]] puzzle or the Maya underworld of [[Xibalba]].
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=== Shadow of the Tomb Raider ===
 
The stories and the culture of the Maya play a vital part in [[Shadow of the Tomb Raider]]. [[Lara Croft (Reboot)|Lara]] is looking for the [[Key of Chak Chel]], a obsidian dagger and supposedly the key that opens the [[Silver Box of Ix Chel]], when she inadvertently triggers [[The Cleansing]], a Maya apocalypse, that starts with earthquakes and a tsunami laying waste to [[Cozumel]].
 
The stories and the culture of the Maya play a vital part in [[Shadow of the Tomb Raider]]. [[Lara Croft (Reboot)|Lara]] is looking for the [[Key of Chak Chel]], a obsidian dagger and supposedly the key that opens the [[Silver Box of Ix Chel]], when she inadvertently triggers [[The Cleansing]], a Maya apocalypse, that starts with earthquakes and a tsunami laying waste to [[Cozumel]].
  

Revision as of 19:15, 15 June 2018

The Maya are an Mesoamerican people living in what today in most parts is Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and some western portions of Honduras and El Salvador. In pre-Columbian times their culture is considered as one of the most advanced in all of the Americas; it included a elaborate Hieroglyphic writing system, a precise Calender, as well as beautiful art and architecture.

The ancient Maya are also known for their bloodthirsty wars among the city states located across the Yucatan peninsula and the highlands to the east, as well as their ritual human sacrifices that supposedly took place atop the Pyramids located in every city. They, however, share these traits with some of the other Mesoamerican cultures like the Aztecs.

When the Spaniards arrived in the early 1500s, they quickly conquered the already in decline Maya cities and only few pre-Columbian documents survived the following Christianisation. Today their cities are mostly ruins, overgrown by the jungle.

The Maya in Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider: Underworld

There are a lot of Maya influences visible in the Mexican levels of Tomb Raider: Underworld, e.g. the Maya Calendar puzzle or the Maya underworld of Xibalba.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

The stories and the culture of the Maya play a vital part in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Lara is looking for the Key of Chak Chel, a obsidian dagger and supposedly the key that opens the Silver Box of Ix Chel, when she inadvertently triggers The Cleansing, a Maya apocalypse, that starts with earthquakes and a tsunami laying waste to Cozumel.

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