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Tagspostclassic
9 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Late Postclassic – Contact (c.1200–1530 CE) Kowoj Maya · Maya (Kowoj – Late Postclassic Petén)
Topoxte crowns the largest island (450m) in Lake Yaxha, Petén, at 180 m. After surrounding Classic cities fell, Postclassic Kowoj Maya refortified the island c.1200 CE with a rubble rampart (400m)…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Postclassic 1200–1550 CE (settlement from ~564 CE but walls/frescos 1200–1500) · Maya (Eastern coast, Postclassic International style, Chetumal polity, Mayapán confederacy)
Late Postclassic (1200–1550 CE) clifftop walled port with Caribbean panorama: 6 m limestone wall and pyramid Temple of the Frescoes with mural interiors, El Castillo (12 m pyramid with columns as…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Postclassic (Ko'woj) · Maya Ko'woj (Itza-Ko'woj frontier)
Lake-island Postclassic capital Topoxté (1200–1450 CE) in Lake Yaxhá: 14.7 m Temple C flat-roofed pyramid with central Mexican Postclassic traits on fortified islet.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Postclassic East Coast (1200–1520 CE, occupied to contact) · Maya (East Coast – Ecab / Cuchbalam)
Postclassic coastal town (1200–1520 CE) directly in Cancún Hotel Zone at km 18 on barrier island between Nichupté Lagoon and Caribbean: ~40 platforms, colonnaded halls and Pyramid Structure 2 (9 m…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Postclassic (Aztec/Morelos) · Aztec (Tlahuica–Xochimilca provincial)
Aztec provincial capital (1350–1521 CE) in Morelos — palace, pyramid and 150 ha town at Yautepec valley floor.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Epiclassic–Postclassic (Coyotlatelco–Aztec) · Toltec–Colhua / Basin Postclassic
Toltec-Colhua capital (600–1400 CE) on Lake Xochimilco — 8 pyramids beneath Cerro de la Estrella, Mexica legitimacy ancestor.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic to Late Postclassic East Coast (600–1520 CE, peak 1200–1520) · Maya (East Coast – Cupul / Ecab)
Ancient Beel'maan port city (600–1520 CE, port apex 1200–1520) 8 km north of Cancún on Caribbean beach ridge: 14 structures around plaza dominated by El Castillo 12.5-m-high five-stage pyramid-temple…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early Postclassic 850–1160 CE (Tollan apogee 950–1150) · Toltec (Tolteca-Chichimeca, Nahua-affiliated)
Capital of Toltec Empire (Tollan, 950–1160 CE) spanning 16 km² on Malinche Hill: Pyramid B (Temple of the Morning Star) crowned by four 4.6 m basalt Atlante warrior columns on coatepantli (serpent…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Postclassic (Militaristic) 1100–1521 CE · Zapotec-Mixtec (Late Zapotec)
Final Zapotec capital with two Mixtec polychrome tombs and unfinished pyramid, 1100–1521.
