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18 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya (700–734 CE) · Maya (Tikal Mutul dynasty)
Classic Maya superstructure 55 m high (45 m pyramid + 12 m temple and 12 m roof comb) on Great Plaza east, funerary pyramid of Jasaw Chan K'awiil I (695–734), entombed vault 6 m under with jade…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Early Late Classic c. 650–700 CE · Maya (Tikal)
Second tallest Tikal pyramid 57 m high south complex behind Palace: oldest of major Tikal temples (c. 650–700), with two talud-tablero influenced early masks and massive sheer limestone platform.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya · Maya (Mutal polity)
Tallest temple-pyramid in Tikal, atop 7 m supporting platform, roof comb; from summit see canopy and other temples. Part of vast Classic Maya city (16 km²) with ~3000 structures.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Late Classic (Tepeu 2) · Maya (Tikal dynasty)
Tikal Temple VI — 12 m pyramid with 12 m roof comb bearing 180-glyph history text of Tikal 766 CE, SE causeway terminus.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Late Classic Terminal Classic transition c. 810–820 CE · Maya (Tikal late)
55 m high pyramid west of Tozzer Causeway, last great temple built at Tikal for Dark Sun / Chitam late 8th c: thickest roof comb remaining, steep 55° stair and jaguar-pelt sculpture of priest at…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya c. 700 CE (c. 734 dedication?) · Maya (Tikal)
Western twin of Temple I: 38 m high pyramid with temple summit south of Great Plaza (facing east toward Temple I), built for wife of Jasaw Chan K'awiil I (Lady 12 Macaw).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Preclassic to Early Classic (Mundo Perdido phase) · Maya (Preclassic Tikal)
Tikal’s earliest pyramid — Mundo Perdido 5D-87 — 30 m Preclassic E-Group astronomical pyramid 67 m base c.100 BCE, ancestor to Tikal’s dynastic pyramids.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Temple complex
Preclassic–Classic Maya · Maya (Mutal dynasty)
Classic Maya superpower (600 BCE–900 CE) — UNESCO 1979 Mirador-Tikal jantung dengan Mundo Perdido 30-m E-Group observatory (600 BCE–), North Acropolis dynastic necropolis 1000 year...
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Temple complex
Classic · Maya/Andean
Tikal Mundo Perdido — Teotihuacan enclave.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Preclassic to Late Classic (300 BCE–750 CE) · Maya (Petén lowland, Tikal adversary)
Steep ridge-top Early Classic royal acropolis (c.300 BCE–750 CE, zenith 350–550 CE) 7 km west of Tikal's enemy El Zotz main group, dominated by 30 m high Diablo Pyramid (terraced platform with summit…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Temple complex
Middle–Late Preclassic 400 BCE–200 CE · Maya (Preclassic Uaxactún)
Second E-Group observatory 800 m south of classic Group E with twin stela-altars and mural palace.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Middle Preclassic to Late Classic (1000 BCE–900 CE; E-Group 600–300 BCE) · Maya (Preclassic then Tikal sphere)
Type-site of Mesoamerican E-Group solar observatory: western radial pyramid E-VII (Late Preclassic 500 BCE) aligning via three eastern platforms to sunrise solstices/equinoxes, deliberate horizon…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Preclassic to Late Classic (600 BCE–900 CE) · Maya (Yaxhá–Naranjo rivalry)
Major Petén lakeside Maya city (600 BCE–900 CE) between Yaxhá and Sacnab lakes, rival to Naranjo, covering 3 km² with 9 pyramids.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Late Classic (Tepeu 1–2) · Maya (Petexbatun / Tikal-Calakmul splinter)
Petexbatun fortified capital Dos Pilas (648–761 CE): 18 m twin pyramid Main Plaza encircled by unique double limestone palisade — Classic Maya collapse war laboratory.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Early to Late Classic (Kaanul period) · Maya (Kaanul / Tikal sphere)
32 m Late Classic pyramid XXVII at Naachtun — layered Preclassic→Classic pyramid bridging Mirador Basin collapse and Kaanul hegemony c.600 CE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Classic (Late Classic apogee) · Maya (Sa'al kingdom)
Classic Maya capital Sa'al (Naranjo) hilltop city: 32 m triadic Acropolis pyramid, hieroglyphic stairways of Lady Six Sky's wars with Tikal/Calakmul 500 BCE–950 CE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Late Preclassic (Mirador Basin Preclassic) · Maya (Preclassic Mirador)
Preclassic 400 BCE giant triadic pyramid Structure 1 at Nakbe — 45 m high Mirador Basin predecessor to El Mirador, earliest Maya monumental pyramid.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Temple complex
Early-Late Classic 600–650 CE, Holmul dynasty Teotihuacan influence · Maya (Holmul)
Vaulted mural building 1 km west of Holmul Group I containing 7 m-long polychrome mural c.600 CE depicting 8 royal figures with Teotihuacan-linked toponyms and Holmul-Tikal dynastic conflict.
