🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Kohunlich Archaeological Zone
Maya Classic 200–900 CE · Maya (Rio Bec–Chenés)
Temple of Masks five 3 m stucco masks, Rio Bec–Chenés.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Maya Classic 200–900 CE · Maya (Rio Bec–Chenés)
Temple of Masks five 3 m stucco masks, Rio Bec–Chenés.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Postclassic Tarascan (1200–1528 CE) · Purépecha
Huandacareo — La Nopalera in Michoacán, Mexico is a Postclassic Tarascan (1200–1528 CE) ancient-city attributed to Purépecha.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Classic (250–550 CE) · Teotihuacan
Totometla Barrio — Teotihuacan Obsidian Workshop in Mexico State, Mexico is a Classic (250–550 CE) ancient-village attributed to Teotihuacan.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Late Classic Puuc 600–900 CE with Postclassic cave shrine reuse · Maya (Puuc cave shrine)
Hilltop Puuc palace above sacred caves of Chacmultún with permanent water pools and Postclassic red hand cave paintings.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Epiclassic (600–900 CE) late Classic Bajío · Bajío (Tarascan ancestor) with Teotihuacan theme brazier
Plazuelas excavated by INAH 1998–, 1200 pecked spirals.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tomb
Early Formative (1600–1300 BCE) Early! · Capacha / El Opeño
El Opeño Tombs — Jacona in Michoacán, Mexico is a Early Formative (1600–1300 BCE) Early! tomb attributed to Capacha / El Opeño.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Terminal Classic Puuc 800–1050 CE · Maya (Puuc)
Huntichmul East Complex north of Puuc Route: 70 m long vaulted palace with Puuc junquillo columns, sacbe linking to Sayil Group 2 km west. Mapped by Pollock 1980; 8 mounds remain unexcavated.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Postclassic (c.1200–1521 CE) Late Postclassic Cozumel–Mayapan league · Maya (East Coast – Cozumel)
San Gervasio (Tantún Cuzamil) is Cozumel island's paramount Late Postclassic pilgrimage capital at 15 m interior, 7 km west of San Miguel, Quintana Roo.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Bonampak Mural Room 1 South Wall in Chiapas, Bonampak, Mexico is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Tula Atlante Terrace Column Row 3 in Hidalgo, Tula, Mexico is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic (Río Bec) · Maya (Río Bec–Chenes)
Classic Río Bec palatial city (c.550–900 CE) at Becán-Chicanná dispersed urban nebula, with Structure II jaguar monster-mouth zoomorphic mascarón doorway (12 m high 18 m wide — bes...
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Preclassic to Postclassic Huastec (600 BCE–1520 CE, Florescent 600–900) · Huastec (Tenek – Maya linguistic isolate)
Great Huastec city (600 BCE–1520 CE, peak 600–900 CE) on Tampaón River bend covering 50 sq ha with 70 mounds, artificial lagoons and plazas: 21×40 mound group, Stepped Pyramid of the Moon, Temple of…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Preclassic – Postclassic (300 BCE–1500 CE, mask palace 300–500 CE) · Maya (Northwestern Yucatán – Acanceh)
Maya town in central-north Yucatán occupied continuously 300–1500 CE with unique layered architecture: Early Classic steep step-pyramid buried under Palace of the Stuccos (1st c.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Epiclassic (650 – 900 CE) · Olmeca-Xicalanca
Cacaxtla in Tlaxcala, Mexico is a Epiclassic (650 – 900 CE) ancient city attributed to Olmeca-Xicalanca culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic (Río Bec style florescence) · Maya (Río Bec)
Type site for Río Bec architectural phenomenon (c.550–900 CE) — most dispersed large Classic Maya city 50 km², 6 km² core with 6+ plaza groups (A–F, Central Group Structure V-N 13...
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Postclassic (Tlahuica / Aztec) · Tlahuica / Aztec
Tlahuica twin-temple pyramid at Teopanzolco — 35×25 m double pyramid c.1200 CE with 11 nests; 2017 earthquake revealed hidden Tlaloc temple.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Postclassic (Aztec/Morelos) · Aztec (Tlahuica–Xochimilca provincial)
Aztec provincial capital (1350–1521 CE) in Morelos — palace, pyramid and 150 ha town at Yautepec valley floor.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Preclassic to Postclassic 300 BCE–1450 CE (peak Classic 600–800, Terminal 800–1100) · Maya (eastern Lowlands, Sian Ka'an sphere)
Vast lowland Maya city of ~80 km² with ~6,500 structures linked by 16 white-road sacbeob (raised plaster causeways totalling 70 km, longest Sacbe 1 100 km to Yaxuná near Chichén Itzá, 10 m wide),…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Geoglyph
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Eastern Yucatan Settlement Outer — Yucatan (55-37) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Iron Age (regional) geoglyph of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for settlement and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Geoglyph
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Southern Yucatan Platform B — Yucatan (55-13) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Bronze Age (regional) geoglyph of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture; Maya
Chichén Itzá — Caracol Ancillary Platform North in Yucatán, Chichén Itzá, Caracol, Mexico is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex att…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban; Maya
Uxmal — Nunnery Quadrangle North Building Mosaic Patio (Yucatán) in Yucatán, Uxmal, Mexico is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attr…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Formative–Epiclassic 800 BCE–950 CE · Apizaco / Tlaxcala tradition (Central Highlands)
Fertility hilltop with Flower Pyramid: 2000 female figurines, spindle whorls and needle offerings on spiral pyramid.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Preclassic to Early Postclassic (300 BCE–1200 CE) · Maya — Oxkintok sphere, Puuc
Northwestern-most major Puuc site near Maxcanú, 6 km southeast of town, conspicuous for Satunsat labyrinth — vaulted maze with 3 floors and astronomical ducts linking to equinox sun, and triadic…
