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15 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Postclassic Contact · Maya Kaqchikel
Kaqchikel capital Iximché (1470–1524 CE): hilltop twin-pyramid plazas Temple 2 10 m with ballcourt and 40 m ravine defences, first Spanish capital of Guatemala 1524.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Late Classic to Postclassic Contact · Maya Mam (Huehuetec)
Mam capital Zaculeu (Saqulew) hilltop citadel 5th–1525 CE: 12.3 m Structure 1 step-pyramid plaza, seven pyramid plazas with wall-ditch, over-restored 1940s debated.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Postclassic (Late Highland) · Maya Poqomam (or Chajoma-Kaqchikel debated)
Mountain fortress Mixco Viejo (Poqomam capital 1200–1525 CE): razor-ridge twin-pyramid complexes Group A 12 m with ballcourts, walls and baffled gates 200 m above ravines.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Postclassic Late · Maya K'iche' Quiché
K'iche' empire capital Q'umarkaj (Utatlán) 1400–1524 CE: hilltop plaza with Temple of Tohil 12 m pyramid and 23 palaces, Popol Vuh city burned 1524.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Preclassic to Late Classic (800 BCE–950 CE) · Maya — Pasión trading port
Strategic junction town where Salinas + Pasión = Usumacinta, defining southern Maya lowlands trading hub, excavated by Harvard 1958–63 after Morley identification, revealing 12 stelae dated 455–849…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Middle Preclassic to Terminal Classic (900 BCE–950 CE), apogee 650–890 CE · Maya — Ceibal-Petexbatun kingdom, Mexican influenced late
Bluff-top city 27 km east of Dos Pilas, excavated 1964–68 then by Inomata, famous for Structure A-3 atop A-II substructure (Late Preclassic cruciform E-Group) with four stairways each with stela…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Late Preclassic Miraflores (400 BCE–100 CE) peak · Maya–Highland — Kaminaljuyu
Once greatest New World city (Michael Coe) with 200 mounds mapped by E. M. Shook (1930s–60s) across Guatemala Valley, Mound A is flagship Miraflores platform pyramid facing Lake Miraflores (now dry)…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Late Classic (Tepeu 1–2) · Maya (Petexbatun / Tikal-Calakmul splinter)
Petexbatun fortified capital Dos Pilas (648–761 CE): 18 m twin pyramid Main Plaza encircled by unique double limestone palisade — Classic Maya collapse war laboratory.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Classic (Late Classic apogee) · Maya (Sa'al kingdom)
Classic Maya capital Sa'al (Naranjo) hilltop city: 32 m triadic Acropolis pyramid, hieroglyphic stairways of Lady Six Sky's wars with Tikal/Calakmul 500 BCE–950 CE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Late Classic terminal · Maya Petexbatun
Chasm-ringed Petexbatun fortress Aguateca (c.770–810 CE): Palace Barranca palace-pyramid complex, burned and abandoned leaving Pompeii-like elite workshops intact.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Preclassic to Classic Olmec–Maya transition 800 BCE–900 CE · Olmec to Maya (K'iche' Pacific)
Olmec-Maya transition site with earliest Long Count stela 126 CE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Preclassic to Early Classic, c.500 BCE–300 CE · Maya (Preclassic Lowland)
Pyramid E-VII-sub in Uaxactun Group E (c.500 BCE–200 CE, Preclassic–Early Classic). Eastern triadic platform of the canonical E-Group solar observatory: western pyramid E-VII aligned to three eastern…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya (700–734 CE) · Maya (Tikal Mutul dynasty)
Classic Maya superstructure 55 m high (45 m pyramid + 12 m temple and 12 m roof comb) on Great Plaza east, funerary pyramid of Jasaw Chan K'awiil I (695–734), entombed vault 6 m under with jade…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Late Classic, c.730–734 CE, reign Hasaw Chan K'awil · Maya (Classic Lowland)
Temple I — Gran Jaguar — pyramid over tomb of Jasaw Chan K'awiil I (Hasaw Chan K'awil, r.682–734 CE), north of Great Plaza, 47 m high.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Late Preclassic, c.300 BCE–150 CE (peak 100 BCE) · Maya (Preclassic Mirador)
Tigre Pyramid at El Mirador (c.300 BCE–150 CE, Middle Preclassic to Late Preclassic colossus) — 55 m high, base 145 × 145 m, 18 m high temple atop, part of Tigre complex south of La Danta.
