🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Xlapak South Group
Terminal Classic Puuc 800–1000 CE · Maya (Puuc)
Free-access Puuc site at Km Xlapak 20.17N -89.60W between Sayil (4 km west) and Labná (3 km east) within Puuc Hills valley.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Peralta — Bajío Double Pyramid on Floodplain
Epiclassic (500–950 CE Bajío, El Bajío classical) · Peralta culture (Bajío polities, parallel Teotihuacan)
Peralta excavated by INAH 1990s, Bajío classic polities contemporary Teotihuacan north.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Mayapan
Late Postclassic (Mayapan) · Maya (Yucatán)
Mayapan — walled last Maya capital 1220–1440.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
El Tigre (Itzamkanac) Archaeological Zone
Maya Classic and Chontal Postclassic · Maya (Chontal Acalan)
Chontal capital pyramid 25 m, Cuauhtémoc execution 1525.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Xpujil — Structure I Three-Temple Pyramid
Maya Late Classic, c.550–830 CE · Maya (Río Bec)
Iconic three-tower pyramid Structure I at Xpujil (c.550–830 CE, Late Classic Río Bec). Triple pyramid with three non-functional towers along 54 m facade, central stair leads to temple with Chenes…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Calixtlahuaca Archaeological Zone
Late Postclassic 1116–1520 CE · Matlatzinca → Aztec
Round Temple of Ehécatl 27 m, Matlatzinca 1116–1476 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
La Higueras — Veracruz Niche Pyramid Set Tajín Little Sister
Classic Veracruz (600–900 CE) Tajín contemporary niche architecture · Totonac Classic Veracruz (Tajín interaction)
Veracruz La Higueras excavated by Daneels 2000s, niche Tajín province.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Tepantitla Compound — Teotihuacan
Classic Teotihuacan (250–550 CE) · Teotihuacan
Tepantitla Compound — Teotihuacan in Mexico State, Mexico is a Classic Teotihuacan (250–550 CE) ancient-city attributed to Teotihuacan.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Tepantitla Palace / Tetitla Apartments, Teotihuacan (detailed)
Teotihuacan Classic · Teotihuacan
Tepantitla Palace / Tetitla Apartments, Teotihuacan (detailed) in State of Mexico, Mexico is a Teotihuacan Classic ancient village attributed to Teotihuacan culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Kabah Archaeological Zone
Maya Late Classic 300–1000 CE · Maya (Puuc, Uxmal polity)
Palace of Masks 250 Chaac masks, 18 km sacbé 800–950 CE, UNESCO 1996.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Xpujil Group B
Late Classic Rio Bec 600–900 CE · Maya (Rio Bec)
Group B 500 m south of Xpujil’s iconic Structure I (three-temple pyramid): twin-tower Structure II 9 m high with Rio Bec false stairs, courtyard and vaulted residential palace.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Kohunlich
Classic · Maya/Andean
Kohunlich — Temple of the Masks 5×2 m stucco.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Tlajinga Workshops — Teotihuacan South
Classic to Epiclassic (300–650 CE) · Teotihuacan
Tlajinga Workshops — Teotihuacan South in Mexico State, Mexico is a Classic to Epiclassic (300–650 CE) ancient-village attributed to Teotihuacan.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Sayil Archaeological Zone
Maya Late Classic 700–1000 CE · Maya (Puuc)
70 m Gran Palacio 90 rooms, Puuc 800–1000 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Chacmultún — Puuc Twin Pyramid Cave Mouth
Late Classic Puuc (700–900 CE) + cave use 200 CE · Maya Puuc (Uxmal sphere) and cave paint Chac cult
Chacmultún excavated by Thompson and Andrews, cave rain cult.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient port
Isla Cerritos
Classic · Maya/Andean
Isla Cerritos — offshore port island with dike.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Tetitla Apartment — Teotihuacan
Classic (450–650 CE) · Teotihuacan
Tetitla Apartment — Teotihuacan in Mexico State, Mexico is a Classic (450–650 CE) ancient-city attributed to Teotihuacan. Apartment with eagles and jaguars murals, pulque gods and Tlaloc processions.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tomb
Tabachines Shaft Tombs — Atemajac
Late Formative (300 BCE–400 CE) · Western Mexico
Tabachines Shaft Tombs — Atemajac in Jalisco, Mexico is a Late Formative (300 BCE–400 CE) tomb attributed to Western Mexico. Cluster of 11 shaft tombs at Atemajac valley with box tombs intrusive.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Great Pyramid of Cholula
Preclassic to Postclassic (300 BCE – 1200 CE) · Mix: Cholulteca, Teotihuacan, Olmeca-Xicallanca
Largest pyramid by volume in world: 450 m sided adobe brick pyramid with successive construction phases, now hill topped by Spanish church of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Geoglyph
Paquimé (Casas Grandes) Desert Lines & Adobe Geoglyphs
Medio period (Casas Grandes, 1060–1340 CE) · Mogollon–Paquimé (Casas Grandes)
60+ adobe and rubble geoglyphs (1060–1340 CE) surrounding the Mogollon city of Paquimé — acolyte owl and avenues.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Quiahuiztlan
Postclassic (c.1200–1519 CE) Totonac – Aztec contested · Totonac
Quiahuiztlan crowns the dramatic Cerro del Bernal ridge above Villa Rica–La Antigua, north of Veracruz city.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Toniná
Classic – Early Postclassic (c.100–900 CE) Western Maya frontier, Tzeltal Popo · Maya (Western Tzeltal – Popo dynasty)
Toniná (Tzeltal Popo, house of stone) dominates the Jataté tributary ridge 13 km east of Ocosingo, Chiapas, at 860 m, forming the most dramatic Maya acropolis: seven stepped terraces climb 71 m above…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Kohunlich Temple of Masks East Frieze
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Kohunlich Temple of Masks East Frieze in Quintana Roo, Kohunlich, Mexico is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.