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12 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.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Preclassic to Late Classic (100 BCE–900 CE) · Maya (Kaan polity satellite)
Hugely sprawling 4 km² Late Classic centre (250–900 CE) between Tikal and Calakmul, dominated by Pyramid M1 (30x25 m, 14 m high with roof comb) and K2 double pyramid acropolis (two 12 m pyramids on…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Late Classic Rio Bec 550–800 CE · Maya (Rio Bec)
Mid-size Rio Bec forest palace 7 km S of Okolhuitz on Becán–Hormiguero track. Structure II combines Chenes monster mask lower register with Rio Bec twin towers upper, indicating stylistic hybridity.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Late Classic Rio Bec 550–830 CE · Maya (Rio Bec)
Rio Bec Group R-16 forest palace east of Becán-Xpujil road: twin non-functional stair towers flanking tripartite temple, interior vaults bear ochre red handprints giving modern name.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic (550–850 CE) · Maya — Chenes/Rio Bec transitional
Transitional site noted by Nondédéo between Chenes Santa Rosa Xtampak sphere and Rio Bec core, its main structure shows Chenes stone mosaic masks on north façade and Rio Bec plain tower fragments on…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Rio Bec (600–900 CE) · Maya — Rio Bec
One of 12 Río Bec Project microregion hamlets illustrating non-hierarchical polity model — no dominant pyramid but a low broad temple mound (Structure 1) with Chenes mosaic fragments, surrounded by…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Late Classic Rio Bec 600–850 CE · Maya (Rio Bec)
Eponymously named ‘Peor Es Nada’ (Worse Is Nothing) by chicleros, located 12 km SE of Xpujil deep in forest.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Late Classic Rio Bec 600–900 CE · Maya (Rio Bec)
Group B 500 m south of Xpujil’s iconic Structure I (three-temple pyramid): twin-tower Structure II 9 m high with Rio Bec false stairs, courtyard and vaulted residential palace.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Preclassic – Terminal Classic (c.300 BCE–950 CE) Río Bec – Chenes transition · Maya (Río Bec–Chenes–Peten fringe)
Pol Box is a jungle pyramid town on the karst plateau 48 km south-southwest of Xpujil in the Calakmul Biosphere fringe, Campeche, at 260 m.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Rock art
Classic (c.250–800 CE) Maya Petén – Río Bec fringe · Maya (Petén – Río Bec transitional)
El Resbalón ('the slide') is a hilltop Maya city and open-air epigraphic cliff 35 km SW of Xpujil in the Calakmul Biosphere south at 250 m.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya (650–850 CE, Rio Bec–Chenes peak) · Maya (Rio Bec–Chenes, Hormiguero style)
Most theatrical Rio Bec city (650–850 CE peak) with Structure II central 8-chamber palace-pyramid 12 m high, Structure V twin-tower pyramid and mask façades.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Early to Late Classic (300–800 CE) · Maya — Rio Becmicroregion / Petén–Rio Bec transitional
Concentrated Petén-style site discovered as anomaly within dispersed Rio Bec zone 3 km north-east of Rio Bec Group B (18°22.510 N, 89°21.524 W per project coordinates), with 63 structures, 18 stelae…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya · Maya (Kanul dynasty)
Powerful Classic Maya superpower (capital of Kanul Snake Kingdom, 6th–9th century) with 6,750 structures, twin reservoirs and stelae. Structure II is massive layered pyramid.
