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  2. Mayan cities - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Maya region showing locations of some of the principal cities. Click to enlarge. Until the 1960s, scholarly opinion was that the ruins of Maya centres were not true cities but were rather empty ceremonial centres where the priesthood performed religious rituals for the peasant farmers, who lived dispersed in the middle of the jungle. [11]

  3. List of Maya sites - Wikipedia

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    Comalcalco is a city of the Classic period. It is the only Mayan city built with bricks made of clay and glued with stucco. Three tombs and 14 funerary burials have been found, of which 7 were inside ceramic urn, as well as a pantheon discovered on the outskirts of the city with 116 burials, unique in the Mayan culture. Copán (Oxwitik)

  4. Maya civilization - Wikipedia

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    During the Early Classic period, the Maya cities of Tikal and Kaminaljuyu were key Maya foci in a network that extended into the highlands of central Mexico; [10] there was a strong Maya presence at the Tetitla compound of Teotihuacan. [11] The Maya city of Chichen Itza and the distant Toltec capital of Tula had an especially close relationship ...

  5. Ancient walls — that served as ‘Google Maps’ for the Mayans ...

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    For these reasons, the researchers believe that the walls were instead a way to help the inhabitants of the region get around, essentially an ancient Mayan “Google Maps,” they said.

  6. Valeriana (archaeological site) - Wikipedia

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    The city layout pattern and architecture of Valeriana matches that of the Chactún-Tamchen area to the southeast of the site. [2] The city contains multiple plazas, temple pyramids, a ballgame court, and a dammed reservoir. All these elements are indicative of a Mayan political capital. [2]

  7. Chichen Itza - Wikipedia

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    A map of central Chichen Itza. Chichen Itza was one of the largest Maya cities, with the relatively densely clustered architecture of the site core covering an area of at least 5 square kilometers (1.9 sq mi). [2] Smaller scale residential architecture extends for an unknown distance beyond this. [2]

  8. Archaeologists Found a Mysterious Ancient Stone That Could ...

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    A stone slab covered with 123 hieroglyphic cartouches discovered at an ancient Maya pyramid in Mexico might not be a treasure map to a lost city, but it comes incredibly close.. The discovery ...

  9. Valeriana (Maya city) - Wikipedia

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    Valeriana is the ruin of an ancient Maya city in the Mexican state of Campeche near its border with the state of Quintana Roo. Its discovery was announced in October 2024, and the site was named after an adjacent freshwater lagoon of the same name. [1] The style and architecture of the city matches that of Chactún-Tamchen area to its southeast ...