🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Oxkintok
Classic (Early–Terminal) · Maya (Puuc–Oxkintok Regional)
Puuc labyrinth-acropolis (250–1000 CE) NW Yucatan — 3-storey vaulted maze palace and astronomical pyramids.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Oxkintok Archaeological Zone
Early Preclassic–Postclassic Puuc (300 BCE–1500 CE, zenith 475–750) · Maya (Early Puuc – northwestern border)
Strategic Puuc border capital (300 BCE–1500 CE, florescent 475–750 Classic Early Puuc) northwest tip of Puuc, controlling Mérida–Uxmal–Calakmul corridor: 3 major groups (Ah Canul, May, Dzib) over 50…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Santa Cruz Submerged Village West
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 · Ancient city
Uxmal
Late Classic to Terminal Classic 600–1000 CE (apogee 800–950, Puuc apogee 850–925) · Maya (Puuc tradition, Northern Maya lowlands)
Greatest Puuc architectural city of northern Yucatán (600–950 CE) with veneer mosaic stonework, Puuc columns, Chac masks and lattice façades: Pyramid of the Magician (Adivino, 35 m high, oval…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Mayapán Archaeological Zone
Maya Postclassic 1220–1440 CE · Maya (Cocom–League)
Walled capital 9 km wall, 4000 structures, League 1220–1440 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Pyramid of Kukulkán (El Castillo)
Terminal Classic to Early Postclassic (Maya-Toltec) · Maya (Itzá) / Toltec-influenced
Stepped pyramid-temple at Chichén Itzá with 365 steps representing solar year; equinox feathered-serpent shadow (Kukulkán) descends balustrade.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Calakmul Structure I Pyramid (Peten)
Late Classic Maya (550–800 CE peak Calakmul Snake Kingdom, Kaan polity) · Maya (Classic, Calakmul/Kaan dynasty, Snake Head emblem)
Northern pyramid at Calakmul Snake Kingdom capital (500 BCE–900 CE): Structure I 40 m high (second highest at site after Structure II 55 m) at north edge of Great Plaza, 70×50 m base with stairway…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Chacmultun
Classic · Maya/Andean
Chacmultun — Puuc Red House vault paintings.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Chacmultún Archaeological Zone
Maya Classic–Postclassic 300 BCE–1500 CE · Maya (Puuc–Chenés)
Red hill palaces 44 m portico, hematite, Puuc-Toltec 600–1000 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Chacmultún Platform Pyramid (Puuc)
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 · 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 · Temple complex
Dzibilchaltún — Temple of Seven Dolls Equinox Light
Preclassic to Postclassic (500 BCE–1500 CE) Seven Dolls 700 CE · Maya Northern Lowland (Dzibilchaltún 8300 structures)
Dzibilchaltún excavated by Andrews 1956–, equinox light through temple doors 21 March/Sept, 8300 structures 19 km².
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Ek Balam
Late Classic Maya 600–850 CE · Maya (Talol kingdom)
146-m Acropolis with jaguar stucco frieze, 600–850 CE Maya city.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
El Rey archaeological site
El Rey is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Mayan culture, located in the southeast of Mexico, in the tourist resort of Cancun, in the state of Quintana Roo.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Huntichmul East Complex
Terminal Classic Puuc 800–1050 CE · Maya (Puuc)
Huntichmul East Complex north of Puuc Route: 70 m long vaulted palace with Puuc junquillo columns, sacbe linking to Sayil Group 2 km west. Mapped by Pollock 1980; 8 mounds remain unexcavated.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient port
Isla Cerritos
Classic · Maya/Andean
Isla Cerritos — offshore port island with dike.
🇲🇽 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 · Ancient city
Kiuic
Late Classic Puuc 600–900 CE peak (with Middle Preclassic origins) · Maya (Puuc)
Major Puuc city in protected 1,800 ha reserve: Palace 38 m long with Puuc mosaic colonnade, Yaxché Group 60 m-tall conical karst hill with EAC twin concentrations, and chultunes.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Kulubá
Late–Terminal Classic · Maya (Eastern Yucatan Chenes–Puuc)
Newly revealed palace city (600–1050 CE) SE of Tizimín — 55-m-long Group C palace.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Labná Archaeological Zone
Maya Late Classic 700–1000 CE · Maya (Puuc)
Labná Arch 3 m, 67-room Palace, Puuc 800–1000 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Oxkintok — Puuc Labyrinth Pyramid
Late Preclassic to Early Postclassic (300 BCE–1200 CE) · Maya — Oxkintok sphere, Puuc
Northwestern-most major Puuc site near Maxcanú, 6 km southeast of town, conspicuous for Satunsat labyrinth — vaulted maze with 3 floors and astronomical ducts linking to equinox sun, and triadic…
