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🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Pyramid of Kukulkán (El Castillo)
Terminal Classic to Early Postclassic (Maya-Toltec) · Maya (Itzá) / Toltec-influenced
Stepped pyramid-temple at Chichén Itzá with 365 steps representing solar year; equinox feathered-serpent shadow (Kukulkán) descends balustrade.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Tepeticpac (Tlaxcala hill town)
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Tepeticpac (Tlaxcala hill town) — buried prehistoric tell/village at Tlaxcala State.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
El Rey archaeological site
El Rey is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Mayan culture, located in the southeast of Mexico, in the tourist resort of Cancun, in the state of Quintana Roo.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Chapultepec Castle
Chapultepec Castle (Spanish: Castillo de Chapultepec) is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
La Quemada (Chicomostoc) — Chalchihuites Hilltop Fortress
Classic (Chalchihuites, 350–850 CE, Epiclásico) · Chalchihuites (Zacatecas) → Coyotlatelco contact
La Quemada (Chicomostoc) — Chalchihuites Hilltop Fortress is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Zacatecas State, Villanueva Municipality, Malpaso valley, Cerro La Quemada, Mexico — Hilltop…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Muyil
Late Preclassic – Postclassic (c.300 BCE–1519 CE) continuous; Early Classic–Late Classic peak · Maya (East Coast / Southern Lowland)
Muyil (Chunyaxché, Chan Muuch) is the long-lived lowland Maya city on the karst ridge at the Muyil lagoon inside the Sian Ka'an Biosphere, Quintana Roo (10 m).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Yaxchilan
Late Classic (c.400–900 CE) Usumacinta kingdom · Maya (Usumacinta – Pacal's rival)
Yaxchilan (ancient Pa' Chan, cleft sky) crowns a horseshoe meander of the Usumacinta in Chiapas at 120 m, 35 km by river from Frontera Corozal.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Monte Albán South Platform Pyramid P
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Monte Albán South Platform Pyramid P in Oaxaca, Monte Albán, Mexico is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Coba Nohoch Mul Pyramid Ramp
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Coba Nohoch Mul Pyramid Ramp in Quintana Roo, Coba, Mexico is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
El Cedral Cozumel
Late Preclassic – Postclassic (c.300 BCE–1518 CE) Cozumel Maya – Spanish contact · Maya (Coastal East Coast)
El Cedral is Cozumel island's oldest pueblo (Preclassic village Oycib) 17 km south of San Miguel, Quintana Roo, at 10 m.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Ichkabal
Late Preclassic – Classic (c.400 BCE–800 CE) Kaan dynasty predecessor · Maya (Lowland – Kaan/Snake Kingdom capital precursor)
Ichkabal is a vaulted jungle metropolis on the pitted limestone plateau 40 km northwest of Bacalar, Quintana Roo, at 110 m.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Palenque Palace Tower Vault
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Palenque Palace Tower Vault in Chiapas, Palenque, Mexico is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Yagul Fortified Hill Acropolis
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Yagul Fortified Hill Acropolis in Oaxaca, Yagul, Mexico is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Izamal
Preclassic to Late Classic · Maya (Northern Lowlands)
Yucatán megacity (300 BCE–1200 CE) beneath Yellow City — 6 Preclassic megapyramids incl. 35-m Kinich Kakmó.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Tres Zapotes
Formative to Classic 1500 BCE–400 CE (Olmec 1500–400 BCE, Epi-Olmec 400 BCE–400 CE with Long Count) · Olmec → Epi-Olmec / Izapan (post-Olmec; nexus to early Maya Long Count)
Long-lived Olmec termination and epi-Olmec center bridging Formative to Classic (1500 BCE–400 CE, Long Count Stela C 32 BCE = second-oldest Long Count date in Mesoamerica after Chiapa de Corzo): 2…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Cantona Pyramid — Acropolis South (Puebla)
Classic to Epiclassic · Cantona culture (highland central Mexico)
High-altitude lava-block pyramid city at Cantona — 15 m acropolis pyramid at 2550 m c.600 CE with 24 ball courts and walled lava causeways.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Chicanná Structure II Pyramid — Bec Valley
Late Classic Maya, c.600-830 CE (Río Bec–Chenés, Late Classic) · Maya (Río Bec–Chenés)
Chicanná (House of Serpent Mouth, Bec Valley, Campeche) Structure II: 4-crown Río Bec pyramid (12 m high) with steep false stair, twin pseudo-temples and central monster-mouth portal (Chenés witz…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Palenque
Late Classic 226 BCE–800 CE (apogee 615–800 CE Early–Late Classic) · Maya (B'aakal / Palenque dynasty; Western Maya lowlands)
Maya Classic capital of B'aakal on Chiapas foothills with low jungle: Temple of Inscriptions (22 m pyramid with 69-step Hieroglyphic Stair recording dynastic history and Pakal's vault; Pakal the…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Dzibilchaltún
500 BCE–1542 CE (Preclassic through Postclassic to Contact; apogee CIassical 600–950) · Maya (northwestern Yucatán, Dzibilchaltún polity)
Northern Maya lowland megasite spanning 17 km² (largest in Yucatán by area, 8,400 structures, 1,300 vaulted buildings) occupied extraordinarily from Middle Preclassic 500 BCE to Conquest ~1542 CE…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Yaxchilán — Structure 33 Pyramid and Great Plaza (Chiapas, Mexico)
Late Classic Maya (600–900 CE) · Maya (Usumacinta)
Spectacular Classic Maya riverine city-state on Usumacinta south bank (350–800 CE), rival of Piedras Negras, known for lintel carvings of bloodletting.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Rock art
Sierra de San Borjita — Ancillary Mural North (Baja)
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Sierra de San Borjita — Ancillary Mural North (Baja) in Baja California Sur, Sierra de San Borjita, Mexico is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–5…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Calakmul Structure I Pyramid (Peten)
Late Classic Maya (550–800 CE peak Calakmul Snake Kingdom, Kaan polity) · Maya (Classic, Calakmul/Kaan dynasty, Snake Head emblem)
Northern pyramid at Calakmul Snake Kingdom capital (500 BCE–900 CE): Structure I 40 m high (second highest at site after Structure II 55 m) at north edge of Great Plaza, 70×50 m base with stairway…