The flat roofs and the temple pyramids seemed frozen in the light of the brilliant moon and the cloudless sky.

As by magic, the city awoke, lights appeared, and people came streaming towards the temple pyramid.

They came to the sacrificial plaza where the great temple pyramid stood.

However, this was the last temple pyramid raised at Tikal and by the end of the 9th century the city had fallen into ruin.

Those two stayed, on purpose, until we actually heard the drums and conch trumpets from the temple pyramid, announcing the start of the nemontentin.

The women of the delegation are waiting for me to join them in sweeping the temple pyramid.

It is a badly damaged temple pyramid with a prominent crest, it faces southward.

Excavations in 2008 revealed that one of these mounds was a temple pyramid with a well preserved central stairway.

The intended sacrifice died of that disease on the very steps of the temple pyramid.

Its ceremonial center focused on plazas surrounded by tall temple pyramids and lower buildings - so-called palaces - with warrens of small rooms.