Balamku

Balamku is a rather small city of the Maya ruins in the vicinity of Calakmul, discovered by a 1990 well-preserved wall frieze was famous. It is located in the Mexican state of Campeche, on the border with Guatemala, approximately 65 kilometers north of the Mayan site of Calakmul. The name is not original.

The building with the frieze of the modeled and painted stucco is located in the rear of the property. The frieze decorates the upper wall surface of a building with three inputs and projects partially high beyond. The original red color is exceptionally well preserved. Dominant element are toads, the revered considered by the Maya leader of the people of the earth to the underworld were. The frieze and the building to which it belongs has been built over in ancient times with a higher buildings, thereby the good state of preservation to explain. The later building was restored again to protect, the frieze is accessible through a door on the side ( west side ).