A sacbe, plural sacbeob (Yucatec Maya: singular sakbej, plural sakbejo'ob), or "white road", is a raised paved road built by the Maya civilization of...
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of rain from September through November. Sakbe'ob (Maya plural of sacbe), or sacbes, are very common at Coba. They are raised pathways lined with stones...
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kilometres (19 mi). Sacbe 7 is located south of Sacbe 6. It is at least 5.1 kilometres (3.2 mi) long and runs across El Laberinto swamp. Sacbe 8 is on the west...
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water bath, and a steam chamber that operated by means of heated stones. Sacbe Number One is a causeway that leads to the Cenote Sagrado, is the largest...
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Back". Archaeological Institute of America. Mizrach, Steve. "The Mayan Sacbe System Analyzed as an Information Web". Florida International University...
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Itza's civic precinct, to which it is connected by a 300-metre (980 ft) sacbe, a raised pathway. According to both Maya and Spanish post-Conquest sources...
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Island Causey Arch, County Durham, England Causewayed enclosure Kūlgrinda Sacbe Oxford English Dictionary 1971. Williams, Robin; Williams, Romey (1992)...
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The causeways are commonly referred to as sacbeob (the plural form of sacbe, meaning "white road" in Mayan, from sac "white" and be "road"). These are...
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Ek Balam. The remains of an ancient Maya raised pedestrian causeway, or sacbe, runs to Aké from Izamal. The ruins are all within a 19th-century Hacienda...
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equinoxes highly unlikely. The temple is connected to the rest of the site by a sacbe, or "white road," so-called because they were originally coated with white...
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