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The peoples and cultures which comprised the Maya civilization spanned more than 2,500 years of Mesoamerican history, in the Maya Region of southern Mesoamerica, which incorporates the present-day nations of Guatemala and Belize, much of Honduras and El Salvador, and the southeastern states of Mexico from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec eastwards, including the entire Yucatán Peninsula.
Map of Pre-Columbian states of Mexico just before the Spanish conquest. The pre-Columbian (or prehispanic) history of the territory now making up the country of Mexico is known through the work of archaeologists and epigraphers, and through the accounts of Spanish conquistadores, settlers and clergymen as well as the indigenous chroniclers of the immediate post-conquest period.
Mexico Structure I Maya: 40 Calakmul. Mexico The Great Pyramid - Structure II Maya: 55 593 CE Chacchoben. Mexico Temple 1 Maya: 20 Chichen Itza. Mexico El Castillo (Temple of Kukulcan) Maya: 55.3 30 Cholula. Mexico The Great Pyramid of Cholula: 450 sq. 66 300 BCE - 800 CE The largest pyramid and the largest manmade monument anywhere in the ...
Camino Real, or the Royal Inland Route, was a trade route for silver extracted from the mines in Mexico and mercury imported from Europe. It was active from the mid-16th to the 19th centuries and stretched over 2,600 km (1,600 mi) from north of Mexico City to Santa Fe in today's New Mexico. This serial site comprises the Mexican part of the ...
Site name Culture Nearest town (modern name) Location Type Description Photo Bocoyna: Tarahumara: Bocoyna: Ruins Cerro Juanaqueña: Hohokam: Trincheras Ruins Cuarenta Casas: Mogollon culture [1] Vallecito: Ruins. Located at Cuarenta Casas. Cueva del Puente: Mogollon culture: Vallecito Ruins. Located at Cuarenta Casas. Cueva de la Serpiente ...
[3] [6] The researchers plan further fieldwork, [6] describing the ruins as "hidden in plain sight" only a 15-minute walk from Federal Highway 186 near Xpujil and cultivated farmland. [4] [5] The researchers named the site "Valeriana", after a nearby lake named Laguna la Valeriana. [2]
A part of the Classic Veracruz culture, El Tajín flourished from 600 to 1200 AD and during this time numerous temples, palaces, ballcourts, and pyramids were built. [1] From the time the city fell, in 1230, to 1785, no European seems to have known of its existence, until a government inspector chanced upon the Pyramid of the Niches. [2]
Below is a list of archaeological sites in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The Olmec heartland. The yellow dots represent ancient habitation sites, while the red dots represent isolated artifact finds unassociated with any ancient town or village. Classic Era sites in western Mesoamerica. El Tajín; La Conchita; Santa Luisa; El Manatí