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Excavated places tagged “long count”

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🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder

Takalik Abaj

Preclassic to Classic Olmec–Maya transition 800 BCE–900 CE · Olmec to Maya (K'iche' Pacific)

Olmec-Maya transition site with earliest Long Count stela 126 CE.

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🇲🇽 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…