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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. San Gervasio's pre-Hispanic name was Tantun Cuzamil, Mayan for Flat Rock in the place of the Swallows.
The site had contact with Teotihuacan in the Early Classic and was fortified with a moat and ramparts. [3] Bonampak: Chiapas, Mexico: Bonampak was a Maya state of the Classic Period in the Usumacinta basin, a complex political region where the city faced wars against other major Maya powers like Yaxchilán.
San Gervasio (Maya site), an archaeological site of the Maya civilization, located on the island of Cozumel, Mexico Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title San Gervasio .
Ancient walls — that served as ‘Google Maps’ for the Mayans — discovered in Mexico. Irene Wright. April 25, 2024 at 5:53 PM. ... The walls date to the Classic Mayan period, between 300 and ...
Sak tzʼi (Maya site) San Andrés, El Salvador; San Bartolo (Maya site) San Clemente, El Petén; San Estevan (Maya site) San Gervasio (Maya site) San Mateo Ixtatán; Santa Rita, Corozal; Sayil; Seibal
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Uxmal (Yucatec Maya: Óoxmáal [óˑʃmáˑl]) is an ancient Maya city of the classical period located in present-day Mexico.It is considered one of the most important archaeological sites of Maya culture, along with Palenque, Chichen Itza and Calakmul in Mexico, Caracol and Xunantunich in Belize, and Tikal in Guatemala.
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.