🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Culhuacan
Epiclassic–Postclassic (Coyotlatelco–Aztec) · Toltec–Colhua / Basin Postclassic
Toltec-Colhua capital (600–1400 CE) on Lake Xochimilco — 8 pyramids beneath Cerro de la Estrella, Mexica legitimacy ancestor.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Epiclassic–Postclassic (Coyotlatelco–Aztec) · Toltec–Colhua / Basin Postclassic
Toltec-Colhua capital (600–1400 CE) on Lake Xochimilco — 8 pyramids beneath Cerro de la Estrella, Mexica legitimacy ancestor.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early Preclassic–Postclassic Puuc (300 BCE–1500 CE, zenith 475–750) · Maya (Early Puuc – northwestern border)
Strategic Puuc border capital (300 BCE–1500 CE, florescent 475–750 Classic Early Puuc) northwest tip of Puuc, controlling Mérida–Uxmal–Calakmul corridor: 3 major groups (Ah Canul, May, Dzib) over 50…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic (Río Bec) · Maya (Río Bec)
Classic Río Bec city (c.500–800 CE) anchoring Xpujil town with famous Structure I — 53-m-long three-tower pyramid with three summit temples and false non-functional stair theatrics...
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic–Early Postclassic (600–1200 CE) · Maya (Eastern Yucatán – Cupul province)
Late Classic–Postclassic eastern Yucatán dense town (600–1200 CE) 35 km SE of Tizimín, 6 sq km with 3 core groups (Group A palace 70×50 m, Group B temple pyramid 8 m, Group C ballcourt) of…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early Classic · Maya (Northwest Yucatan)
Grided Classic metropolis (350–650 CE) on NW Yucatan desert — 79 quadrangles, 30k at 300/km² without cenote.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Formative to Classic 500 BCE–850 CE (Monte Albán I–V; apogee IIIa 250–500 CE, IIIb–IV 500–850) · Zapotec (Beni Zaa); later Mixtec reuse
Zapotec capital on artificially levelled 400 m hilltop (6 km²) commanding Oaxaca Valley confluence: Main Plaza (300×150 m), South and North Platforms, Pyramid of the Dancers (Temple I) with Danzantes…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya, c.550-850 CE (Río Bec, Late Classic) · Maya (Río Bec)
Río Bec Group V Structure V-N central pyramid: 20×15 m base, 18 m high with false twin towers, steep stair (55°) to ornamented temple with Chaak masks and medial moulding.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Preclassic to Postclassic 300 BCE–1450 CE (peak Classic 600–800, Terminal 800–1100) · Maya (eastern Lowlands, Sian Ka'an sphere)
Vast lowland Maya city of ~80 km² with ~6,500 structures linked by 16 white-road sacbeob (raised plaster causeways totalling 70 km, longest Sacbe 1 100 km to Yaxuná near Chichén Itzá, 10 m wide),…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya, c.500-800 CE (Río Bec, Late Classic) · Maya (Río Bec)
Xpujil Structure I: 19 m high Río Bec pyramid with three solid towers each bearing false temple with Chenés mask, atop unified base with 12 doorways leading to 12 rooms on two levels.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya, c.550-850 CE (Classic, Kaan dynasty) · Maya (Kaan / Snake Kingdom)
Calakmul Structure I (East Acropolis) inside Calakmul Biosphere: 45 m high pyramid (base 120×80 m) with acropolis palace summit, among largest Mundo Maya (comparable to Tikal Temple IV).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Northern Yucatan Hilltop Central — Yucatan (55-25) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Chalcolithic (regional) ancient city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for hilltop and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Royal Yucatan Platform West — Yucatan (55-49) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Early Historic (regional) ancient city of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 800 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic (Puuc) · Maya (Puuc)
Puuc platform pyramid at Chacmultún — 10 m stepped platform with 4 palaces and painted red murals c.700 CE above Labná caves.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic to Late Postclassic East Coast (600–1520 CE, peak 1200–1520) · Maya (East Coast – Cupul / Ecab)
Ancient Beel'maan port city (600–1520 CE, port apex 1200–1520) 8 km north of Cancún on Caribbean beach ridge: 14 structures around plaza dominated by El Castillo 12.5-m-high five-stage pyramid-temple…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early–Late Classic · Maya (Kaan–Chenés frontier)
First Kaan (Snake) capital (300–900 CE) — 28-m Kinichná Acropolis with wooden lintel inscriptions.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Central Yucatan Reservoir East — Yucatan (55-32) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Medieval (regional) ancient city of the Medieval tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for reservoir and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya (Río Bec) · Maya (Río Bec)
Type-site false-tower pyramid Structure V-N at Río Bec — 8 m solid-tower platform pyramid c.650–850 CE anchoring 100-structure Río Bec city.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Epiclassic (600–950 CE) · Olmeca-Xicalanca (?) / Cantona culture
Lava-field megacity Cantona Acropolis (600–1000 CE): 12 km² terraced pyramid city on basalt malpaís with 24 ballcourts, 500 causeways, 12 m Acropolis pyramid at 2550 m.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late–Terminal Classic · Maya (Eastern Yucatan Chenes–Puuc)
Newly revealed palace city (600–1050 CE) SE of Tizimín — 55-m-long Group C palace.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Postclassic (Chichimec / Aztec) · Chichimec / Aztec (Nahua)
Aztec twin-stair Coatepetl pyramid at Tenayuca — 38×22 m 19 m high with 40 serpent-head balustrades, 6 rebuild nests c.1220–1350 CE precursor to Templo Mayor.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Preclassic–Postclassic (300 BCE–1520 CE, column hall 600–800 CE) · Maya (North-central Yucatán – Izamal sphere)
Maya city (300 BCE–1520 CE) walled by two concentric walls: inner 4 km sq core with 15 structures includingStructure 1— 30×30 m megalithic column hall 40+ stone columns 5 m high weighing 8 tons atop…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Postclassic Aztec (Mexica) · Mexica (Aztec) Triple Alliance
Dual shrine pyramid (Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc, 1325–1519 CE) — heart of island city Tenochtitlan (population 200,000 in 1519, larger than most European capitals on Lake Texcoco), built in seven…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic to Terminal Classic 600–1000 CE (apogee 800–950, Puuc apogee 850–925) · Maya (Puuc tradition, Northern Maya lowlands)
Greatest Puuc architectural city of northern Yucatán (600–950 CE) with veneer mosaic stonework, Puuc columns, Chac masks and lattice façades: Pyramid of the Magician (Adivino, 35 m high, oval…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya, c.550-830 CE (Río Bec–Chenés, Late Classic) · Maya (Río Bec)
Becan (Békan) 1.7 km moat-and-earthwork-walled city (Campeche): 25 ha nucleated center unlike dispersed Río Bec — Structure VIII 32 m high Río Bec pyramid with twin solid towers flanking central…
