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7 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
Middle to Late Preclassic · Maya (Preclassic)
Late Preclassic Maya super-complex: La Danta triadic pyramid atop 18 m basal platform, volume exceeds Great Pyramid of Giza. Center of Mirador Basin city covering >2000 km² with causeways.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Preclassic (1000 BCE–250 CE), Late Preclassic 400–100 BCE · Maya (Lowland Preclassic)
Revolutionary Preclassic centre (400 BCE–200 CE) with 7-m-tall Late Preclassic murals — earliest Maya polychrome mythology preserved inside 10 m-high Las Pinturas pyramid (90x60 m base) beneath later…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Late Preclassic Mirador 300 BCE–150 CE · Maya (Preclassic Mirador Basin)
Southern satellite of Preclassic supersite: 18 m triadic pyramid and 1.8 m Ajaw stucco mask cache with causeway.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Maya Preclassic 1400 BCE–100 CE · Maya (Mirador Basin Preclassic)
46-m Preclassic triadic pyramid, earliest monumental Maya 1400 BCE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Middle to Late Preclassic 700 BCE–150 CE (Preclassic fluorescence, collapsed c.150 CE Mirador hiatus) · Maya (Preclassic Mirador Basin state, Late Preclassic centralized polity)
Second-largest Preclassic Maya city after El Mirador (700 BCE–400 CE, 30 km southeast of Mirador): 250 m-high-adjacent Henequén pyramid (60 m high ×190×165 m, seventh-tallest Maya pyramid), Mano de…
🇬🇹 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 · 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…
