Archaeological Sites

Ixcateopan

Ixcateopan is an archaeological site located in the town and municipality of Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc, 36 kilometers from Taxco, in the isolated and rugged mountains [...]

Kabah

Kabah (also spelled Kabaah, Kabáh, Kahbah and Kaba) is a Maya archaeological site in the Puuc region of western Yucatan, south of Mérida. Kabah is [...]

Kinichna

Kinichna, Quintana Roo, a Mayan ruin near the Rio Bec Region. It actually is located closer to Kohunlich so it should be visited if you [...]

Kohunlich

Kohunlich is a large archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Mayans, located on the Yucatán Peninsula about 25 km east of the Rio Bec region, and [...]

Kulubá

Kulubá is an ancient Maya civilization city and archeological site in Mexico. Kulubá ruins are located in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, 37 km southeast [...]

La Ferrería

La Ferrería is an archaeological site located 7 kilometers south of the City of Durango, in the state of Durango, México, at the “Cerro de [...]

La Quemada

La Quemada is an archeological site, also known (according to different versions) as Chicomóztoc. It is located in the Villanueva Municipality, in the state of [...]

La Venta

La Venta is a pre-Columbian archaeological site of the Olmec civilization. Its lush environment, strategic location, and historical significance make it a key destination for [...]

Labna

Sorry, your browser does not support this audio tag. Labna is an archaeological site and ceremonial center of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. The site is [...]

Lambityeco

Lambityeco is a small archaeological site just about 3 kilometers west of the Tlacolula city in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is located just [...]

Loltún Cave

Loltun Cave is a cave in the Mexican state of Yucatán, approximately 5 km south of Oxkutzcab. The Loltun Cave contains paintings attributed to the [...]

Mayapan

Mayapan is a pre-Columbian maya site approximately 40 km south-east of Mérida in the state of Yucatán, Mexico. Mayapan was the political and cultural capital [...]

Mitla

Mitla is the second most important archeological site in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico, and the most important of the Zapotec culture. The site [...]

Monte Alban

Monte Albán is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, approximately 9 km west of Oaxaca City. The site is [...]

Mulchic

Mulchic is an archaeological site belonging to the Mayan culture in the so-called Puuc region (or Puuc Valley), located in the south of the state [...]

Muyil

Muyil (also known as Chunyaxché) was one of the earliest and longest-inhabited ancient Maya sites on the eastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. Muyil is [...]

Palenque

Palenque is famous for the ruins of a Mayan city dating from about 600 AD to 800 AD. Set amidst thick trees, Palenque still evokes [...]

Paquimé

Sorry, your browser does not support this audio tag. Paquime or Casas Grandes is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The complex Casas Grandes ("Great Houses"), [...]

Quiahuiztlan

Quiahuiztlán is an archaeological zone of the ancient Totonac city in the State of Veracruz, Mexico. It is located in the municipality of Actopan on [...]

Rio Bec

Rio Bec is an interesting pre-Columbian Mayan archaeological site within the exuberant jungle of the Rio Bec region, and in one of the most important [...]

Sayil

Sayil is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán, in the southwest of the state, south of Uxmal. It was incorporated together [...]

Tamtoc

Tamtoc, Tamtok or Tamohí (Téenek for "place of the water clouds") is an archaeological site of the Huastec culture, located in the municipality of Tamuín [...]

Tehuacalco

Tehuacalco is an archeological site located near the city of Chilpancingo in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Tehuacalco was the first archeological site associated with [...]

Templo Mayor

The Templo Mayor ("Main Temple") was one of the main temples of the Aztecs in their capital city of Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico City. [...]

Teopantecuanitlan

Teopantecuanitlan is an archaeological site in the Mexican state of Guerrero that represents an unexpectedly early development of complex society for the region. The site [...]

Teotenango

Teotenango was in important pre-Hispanic fortified city located in the southern part of the Valley of Toluca. It was initially founded during the last stages [...]

Teotihuacan

Sorry, your browser does not support this audio tag. Teotihuacán is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub valley of the Valley of Mexico, [...]

Tlatelolco

Tlatelolco is an archaeological excavation site in Mexico City, Mexico where remains of the pre-Columbian city-state of the same name have been found. It is [...]

Toniná

Tonina is a pre-Columbian archaeological site and ruined city of the Maya civilization located in what is now the Mexican state of Chiapas, some 13 [...]

Tula

Tula is a Mesoamerican archeological site, which was an important regional center that reached its height as the capital of the Toltec Empire between the [...]

Tulum Ruins

Tulum is the archaeological site of a pre-Columbian Mayan walled city serving as a major port. The ruins are situated on 12-meter tall cliffs along [...]

Tzintzuntzán

Tzintzuntzan was the ceremonial center of the pre-Columbian Tarascan state capital of the same name. The name comes from the Purépecha word Ts’intsuntsani, which means [...]

Uxmal

Uxmal is an ancient Maya city of the classical period in present-day Mexico. Uxmal is considered one of the most important archaeological sites of Maya [...]

Valeriana

Valeriana is a Mayan archaeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche, in a tropical rainforest jungle near the border with Quintana Roo. Its discovery [...]

Xaman-Há

Xamanha Ruins (Playa del Carmen, Xaman Ha, Playacar) - Xamanha was one of the first settlements seen by the Spanish in the early sixteenth century. [...]

Xcambó

Xcambó means “Place of the Maiden” or “Place of the Waning Moon”. This site is located just 2 km south from San Bruno, on the [...]