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  2. Chichen Itza - Wikipedia

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    Elaborate stone facades in Chichen Itza's "Monjas" complex in 1902. The Maya name "Chichen Itza" means "At the mouth of the well of the Itza." This derives from chi', meaning "mouth" or "edge", and chʼen or chʼeʼen, meaning "well". Itzá is the name of an ethnic-lineage group that gained political and economic dominance of the northern ...

  3. Akab Dzib - Wikipedia

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    The Akab Dzib is a pre-Columbian structure at the Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza, located in the central-northern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula of present-day Mexico. The building is formally catalogued in archaeological surveys as Chichen Itza Structure 4D1 ; alternative spellings include Akab Tzib and Akabdzib .

  4. Category:Chichen Itza - Wikipedia

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    Chichen Itza is a renowned Maya city archeological site and World Heritage Site in Yucatán state, Mexico. Pages in category "Chichen Itza" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.

  5. Temple of the Inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    Temple of Inscriptions. The Temple of the Inscriptions (Classic Maya: Bʼolon Yej Teʼ Naah (Mayan pronunciation: [ɓolon jex teʔ naːh]) "House of the Nine Sharpened Spears" [1]) is the largest Mesoamerican stepped pyramid structure at the pre-Columbian Maya civilization site of Palenque, located in the modern-day state of Chiapas, Mexico.

  6. Mesoamerican pyramids - Wikipedia

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    El Castillo, Chichen Itza. Mesoamerican pyramids form a prominent part of ancient Mesoamerican architecture.Although similar in some ways to Egyptian pyramids, these New World structures have flat tops (many with temples on the top) and stairs ascending their faces, more similar to ancient Mesopotamian Ziggurats.

  7. Ik Kil - Wikipedia

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    Cenote Ik Kil is near the Maya [2] ruins of Chichen Itza, on the highway to Valladolid. Ik Kil was considered sacred by the Maya who used the site as a location for human sacrifice to their rain god, Chaac. Bones and pieces of jewelry have been found in the waters of the cenote by archaeologists and speleologists. [3]

  8. El Castillo, Chichen Itza - Wikipedia

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    El Castillo (Spanish pronunciation: [el kas'tiʎo], 'the Castle'), also known as the Temple of Kukulcan is a Mesoamerican step-pyramid that dominates the center of the Chichen Itza archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán. The temple building is more formally designated by archaeologists as Chichen Itza Structure 5B18.

  9. El Caracol, Chichen Itza - Wikipedia

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    The structure is dated to around AD 906, the Post Classic period of Mesoamerican chronology, by the stele on the Upper Platform. [1]It is suggested that the El Caracol was an ancient Mayan observatory building and provided a way for the Mayan people to observe changes in the sky due to the flattened landscape of the Yucatán with no natural markers for this function around Chichen Itza. [2]