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  2. List of Maya sites - Wikipedia

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    The peoples and cultures which comprised the Maya civilization spanned more than 2,500 years of Mesoamerican history, in the Maya Region of southern Mesoamerica, which incorporates the present-day nations of Guatemala and Belize, much of Honduras and El Salvador, and the southeastern states of Mexico from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec eastwards, including the entire Yucatán Peninsula.

  3. Maya civilization - Wikipedia

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    This was followed by various Spanish priests and colonial officials who left descriptions of ruins they visited in Yucatán and Central America. [96] In 1839, American traveller and writer John Lloyd Stephens set out to visit a number of Maya sites with English architect and draftsman Frederick Catherwood. [97]

  4. List of Mesoamerican pyramids - Wikipedia

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    Maya: 55 300 BCE to 100 CE El Puente. Honduras Structure 1 Maya: 12 600 BCE- 900 CE Religious temple Mixco Viejo. Guatemala Maya: 1100 to 1500 CE Tikal. Guatemala Temple I Maya: 47 Copán. Honduras Maya: Copán has several overlapping step-pyramids. Becán. Mexico Structure IX Maya: 42 Bonampak. Mexico The Temple of the Murals Maya: 580 to 800 ...

  5. 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]

  6. Maya Region - Wikipedia

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    The Maya Region is firmly bounded to the north, east, and southwest by the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the Pacific Ocean, respectively. [1] [2] It is less firmly bounded to the west and southeast by 'zones of cultural interaction and transition between Maya and non-Maya peoples.' [3] [2] The western transition between Maya and non-Maya peoples roughly corresponds to the Isthmus of ...

  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. Uxmal - Wikipedia

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    Uxmal (Yucatec Maya: Óoxmáal [óˑʃmáˑl]) is an ancient Maya city of the classical period located in present-day Mexico.It is considered one of the most important archaeological sites of Maya culture, along with Palenque, Chichen Itza and Calakmul in Mexico, Caracol and Xunantunich in Belize, and Tikal in Guatemala.

  9. Tikal - Wikipedia

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    The ruins lie among the tropical rainforests of northern Guatemala that formed the cradle of lowland Maya civilization. The city itself was located among abundant fertile upland soils, and may have dominated a natural east–west trade route across the Yucatán Peninsula . [ 18 ]