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It had 24 ballcourts, the largest number recorded per individual site in Mexico. [48] Great City of Chicomostoc-La Quemada: Zacatecas: 2001 i, iv (cultural) Chicomostoc-La Quemada is an archaeological site, comprising the remains of a city that was built c. 400-900 CE. It has a large ballcourt, several terraces, an observatory, and a pyramid. [49]
Organisational category containing subcategories of archaeological sites in Mexico, by the modern Mexican state they are located in. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Archaeological sites in Mexico by state .
Paleo-Indian archaeological sites in Mexico (1 C, 3 P) Petroglyphs in Mexico (14 P) T. Teotihuacan (1 C, 13 P) Totonac sites (6 P)
Map of the archaeological site. Cuicuilco is an important archaeological site located on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco in the southeastern Valley of Mexico, in what is today the borough of Tlalpan in Mexico City. Construction of the Cuicuilco pyramid began a few centuries BCE, during the Late Preclassic period of Mesoamerican history.
The site reached its peak during the classic period in around 500 CE, although the area had been inhabited long before this date. [10] The oldest item found on the site has been dated to August 10, 561 CE. [11] The only known ruler of Comalcalco was Ox Balam, who appears in an inscription from the Tortuguero archaeological site.
Valeriana is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche in the tropical rainforest jungle near its eastern border with the state of Quintana Roo. [1] Its discovery was announced in October 2024, and the site was named after an adjacent lake.
The site is located in the city of Tula de Allende in the Tula Valley, in what is now the southwest of the Mexican state of Hidalgo, northwest of Mexico City. The archeological site consists of a museum, remains of an earlier settlement called Tula Chico as well as the main ceremonial site called Tula Grande.
The site was first occupied by 200 BC, but did not develop into an urban center until the Epiclassic period (AD 700 – 900). Nearly all the standing architecture at the site was built at this time. At its peak, the city may have had a population of up to 20,000 people. Xochicalco is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and a tourist destination. The ...