🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Lagartero
Classic Maya Late Classic 300–900 CE · Maya (Lakamtuun polity)
Island Maya city on karst lakes: 30 islands linked by causeways with temple islets and raised fields.
🇲🇽 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 · Ancient city
Tenam Puente Maya City
Classic to Early Postclassic (300–1200 CE, walls 900–1200) · Maya (Tojolabal / highland Chiapas)
Fortified Late Classic–Postclassic Maya capital (300–1200 CE, fortification 900–1200) crowning limestone hilltop 250 m above Comitán valley: 60+ structures, walled core (60 ha) with 4.5-m-thick…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Chinkultic (Lagunas de Montebello) Maya City
Early to Late Classic Maya (300–1200 CE) · Maya (Tojolabal – Comitán sphere)
Highland Maya city (300–1200 CE) perched above Cenote Agua Azul at Montebello Lakes, Comitán plateau: 127 mounds grouped in 4 architectural clusters (Groups A–D) over 50 ha, including 25-m-high…
🇲🇽 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 · 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
Bonampak
Late Classic 580–800 CE (mural phase 790–800 CE) · Maya (Usumacinta Basin, dependent of Yaxchilán under Shield Jaguar III)
Small Usumacinta tributary Maya center (~1.5 km²) world-famous for Temple of the Murals (Structure 1): three vaulted rooms with 110 m² of brilliantly preserved frescoes (c.790 CE ‘1000-year pigments’…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Palenque Temple of the Inscriptions
Late Classic Maya (675 CE completion; tomb 683 CE interment) · Maya (Palenque Baakal)
Late Classic Maya 27.2 m high 8-step pyramid-temple (600×675 CE) housing only Mesoamerican pyramid tomb comparable to Egyptian: hidden stair 66 steps descending inside to sarcophagus chamber of Pakal…