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A panorama of the Mayapan excavations from the top of the Castle of King Kukulcan. The ethnohistorical sources – such as Diego de Landa's Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan, compiled from native sources in the 16th century – recount that the site was founded by Kukulcan (the Mayan name of Quetzalcoatl, the Toltec king, culture hero, and demigod) after the fall of Chichen Itza.
Mayapan: Yucatán, Mexico: Mayapan was an important fortified city with a densely occupied area within the city walls. The principal pyramid at Mayapan was modelled after the main pyramid at Chichen Itza. The city was the most important site in Yucatán for a period of about 250 years during the Postclassic Period, with the earliest structures ...
A cave could be considered an axis mundi if it was located in the center of a village. [10] The Late Postclassic site at Mayapan incorporated several cenotes into ceremonial groups, and the Cenote Ch’en Mul is at the heart of the site. [11] At Dos Pilas, house platforms were often in front of cave entries and tunnels went beneath the platform ...
Actun Tunichil Muknal (the Cave of the Crystal Sepulchre), also known locally as ATM, is a cave in Belize, near San Ignacio, Cayo District, notable as a Maya archaeological site that includes skeletons, ceramics, and stoneware. There are several areas with skeletal remains in the main chamber.
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Mayapan and East Coast styles San Gervasio is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization , located in the northern third of the island of Cozumel off the northeastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula , in what is now the Mexican state of Quintana Roo .
[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]