🇲🇽 Mexico · Buried city
Tikal Twin Pyramid — Yucatán (Merida)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Tikal Twin Pyramid in Yucatán, Mexico is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) buried city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Buried city
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Tikal Twin Pyramid in Yucatán, Mexico is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) buried city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Buried city
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Local Neolithic
Tiwanaku Stela Field in Yucatán, Mexico is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) buried city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Cerro Sechín Relief Wall in Yucatán, Mexico is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) temple complex attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Buried city
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Punta Galeta Reef Temple South in Yucatán Cenote, Mexico is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) buried city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Postclassic (Mayapan) · Maya (Yucatán)
Mayapan — walled last Maya capital 1220–1440.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Great Serpent Mound South in Yucatán, Mexico is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Classic · Maya/Andean
Chacmultun — Puuc Red House vault paintings.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient port
Classic · Maya/Andean
Isla Cerritos — offshore port island with dike.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Buried city
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Yarmouth Roads Submerged Forest West in Yucatán Cenote, Mexico is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) buried city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Buried city
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Classical
Fermanville Submerged Pier West in Yucatán Cenote, Mexico is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) buried city attributed to Classical culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Santa Cruz Submerged Village West in Yucatán Cenote, Mexico is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Classical culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture; Maya
Chichén Itzá — Caracol Ancillary Platform North in Yucatán, Chichén Itzá, Caracol, Mexico is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex att…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Maya Postclassic 1220–1440 CE · Maya (Cocom–League)
Walled capital 9 km wall, 4000 structures, League 1220–1440 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Preclassic – Postclassic (300 BCE–1500 CE, mask palace 300–500 CE) · Maya (Northwestern Yucatán – Acanceh)
Maya town in central-north Yucatán occupied continuously 300–1500 CE with unique layered architecture: Early Classic steep step-pyramid buried under Palace of the Stuccos (1st c.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic to Postclassic Puuc (600–1000 CE) · Maya (Puuc)
Iconic rounded-corner Puuc pyramid 40 m high with oval base 46 × 37 m, steep west stair 150 steps at 60°, five superimposed temples (Temple I-V) built over 600 years: Chenes then Puuc.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Preclassic–Postclassic (300 BCE–1520 CE, column hall 600–800 CE) · Maya (North-central Yucatán – Izamal sphere)
Maya city (300 BCE–1520 CE) walled by two concentric walls: inner 4 km sq core with 15 structures includingStructure 1— 30×30 m megalithic column hall 40+ stone columns 5 m high weighing 8 tons atop…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Maya Classic–Postclassic 300 BCE–1500 CE · Maya (Puuc–Chenés)
Red hill palaces 44 m portico, hematite, Puuc-Toltec 600–1000 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic (Puuc) · Maya (Puuc)
Puuc platform pyramid at Chacmultún — 10 m stepped platform with 4 palaces and painted red murals c.700 CE above Labná caves.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early Classic · Maya (Northwest Yucatan)
Grided Classic metropolis (350–650 CE) on NW Yucatan desert — 79 quadrangles, 30k at 300/km² without cenote.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
500 BCE–1542 CE (Preclassic through Postclassic to Contact; apogee CIassical 600–950) · Maya (northwestern Yucatán, Dzibilchaltún polity)
Northern Maya lowland megasite spanning 17 km² (largest in Yucatán by area, 8,400 structures, 1,300 vaulted buildings) occupied extraordinarily from Middle Preclassic 500 BCE to Conquest ~1542 CE…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Late Classic Maya 600–850 CE · Maya (Talol kingdom)
146-m Acropolis with jaguar stucco frieze, 600–850 CE Maya city.