Archaeological Sites in Mexico

Acanceh

Acanceh is a town and ancient Maya archaeological site located in the Mexican state of Yucatán. The modern town of Acanceh is partially atop the pre-Columbian site, and occupation…

Aké (Yucatan)

Aké was a major Maya city in Yucatán, Mexico, flourishing from approximately 500 to 1000 AD. The site, meaning 'place of vines' in Yucatec Maya, spanned roughly 4 square…

Archaeological Site of Xcalumkín

Classic Maya city in the hills of northern Campeche. Key structures include the House of the Great Lintel.

Archaeological Zone of Sayil

Sayil was a Maya city of the Terminal Classic period (800-1000 AD) located in the Puuc region of Yucatán, Mexico. Its centerpiece is El Palacio, a three-story palace stretching 85…

Atzompa

Zapotec elite residential complex located 4 km north of Monte Alban in Oaxaca, occupied during periods IIIB-IV (c. 650-850 AD). The site features high-status palatial units…

Balamkú

Balamku is a small Maya archaeological site located in the Mexican state of Campeche. It features elaborate plaster facades dating to the Early Classic period. It has one of the…

Balcon de Montezuma

Balcón de Montezuma, also known as "Balcon del Chiue" is an archaeological site located at the Alta Cumbre ejido, some 18 kilometres south of Ciudad Victoria, in the state of…

Becan

Becan is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Becan is located near the center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the present-day Mexican state…

Bonampak

Bonampak (known anciently as Ake or, in its immediate area as Usiij Witz, 'Vulture Hill') is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Chiapas. The site is…

Cacaxtla

Cacaxtla is an archaeological site located near the southern border of the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. It contains a sprawling palace with vibrantly colored murals painted in Maya…

Calakmul

Calakmul is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche, deep in the jungles of the greater Petén Basin region. Calakmul was one of the largest and most powerful…

Chacchoben

Chacchoben (Maya for "Place of Red Maize") is a Maya ruin site in Quintana Roo, Mexico, approximately 177 km south of Tulum. INAH launched restoration in 1994, and in 2002 the…

Chacmultun

Chacmultun (Maya for "Red Stone Mounds") is a Maya archaeological site in the Puuc region of Yucatan, Mexico, 130 km southeast of Merida. Inhabited from 300 BC to 1500 AD, the…

Chactún

Chactún is a Classic period Maya archaeological site in Campeche, Mexico, located within the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve. The site covers approximately 54 acres (22 ha) in the…

Chiapa de Corzo

The Zoque Culture Archaeological Zone at Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, is one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in Mesoamerica, first settled around 1250 BC. Between 800 and…

Chicanná

Chicanná was a Maya city that flourished during the Classic period. The site takes its name from Structure II, whose Maya name translates as "House of the Serpent Mouth"—chi…

Cobá

Coba is an ancient Maya city on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, first settled around 50 BC and peaking between 600-900 AD with an estimated 50,000 inhabitants spread across 60 sq km.…

Comalcalco

Comalcalco is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the State of Tabasco, Mexico, adjacent to the modern city of Comalcalco and near the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It…

Cueva del Maguey

Cueva del Maguey is a cliff dwelling site in the Sierra of Durango, Mexico, situated at 2,600 metres elevation in a remote pine forest. Dating to around 1425 AD, the site was home…

Dzibanché

Dzibanche, anciently called Kaanu'l, is an extensive archaeological site of the ancient Maya civilization located in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico. The initial settlement of the…

Dzibilchaltun

Dzibilchaltún is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán, approximately 10 miles north of the state capital of Mérida. The site has been continuously occupied…

Dzibilnocac

Dzibilnocac is a Maya archaeological site in Campeche, Mexico, in the central Chenes region near the community of Vicente Guerrero. Initial occupation dates to around 500 BC…

Edzna

Edzna ('House of the Itzaes') is a Maya archaeological site in Campeche, Mexico, first settled around 600-400 BC and occupied until approximately 1450 AD. It became an influential…

Ekʼ Balam

Ek Balam ('Black Jaguar') is a Maya archaeological site 25 km north of Valladolid in Yucatan, Mexico, with origins in the Middle Preclassic period (700-300 BC). It served as the…

El Palenque

A Zapotec centre near San Martin Tilcajete in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, dating to the Late Monte Alban I phase (300-100 BC). Excavations by Redmond and Spencer uncovered the…

El Rey Zona Arqueologica

A post-Classic Maya archaeological site in Cancun's Hotel Zone, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Remains of post-Classic mural paintings survive on several structures.

El Tajín

El Tajín is a pre-Columbian archeological site in Veracruz, Mexico and is one of the largest and most important cities of the Classic era of Mesoamerica. A part of the Classic…

El Teul Archaeological Zone

One of the oldest continuously occupied sites in northern Mesoamerica, located on Cerro del Teul in southern Zacatecas, Mexico, with habitation spanning from c. 200 BC to 1531 AD.…

El Tigre (Campeche)

El Tigre/Itzamkanac is a Chontal Maya archaeological site in the Candelaria river basin of Campeche, Mexico.

El Tortuguero

Tortuguero (or El Tortuguero) is an archaeological site in southernmost Tabasco, Mexico which supported a Maya city during the Classic period. The site is noteworthy for its use…

Hochob

Hochob, meaning 'place of the corncobs' in Maya, is an archaeological site in Campeche, Mexico, built on a natural hill elevated roughly 30 metres above the surrounding terrain.…

Hormiguero

Hormiguero was a Mayan city which was at its peak in the Late Classic Period (650–850). It is located 22 kilometers south of Xpuhil in the Mexican state of Campeche. Only a few of…

Huamango

Huamango is an early Postclassical (Toltec period) archaeological site located about 4 kilometers northwest of the modern city of Acambay in the State of Mexico. The…

Ihuatzio

A major Purepecha archaeological site in Michoacan, Mexico, meaning "place of the coyote" in the Purepecha language. First settled by Nahua-speaking groups around 900 AD, then…

Izamal

Izamal is an important archaeological site of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is probably the biggest city of the Northern Yucatec Plains, covering a minimal urban…

Izapa

Izapa is a very large pre-Columbian era archaeological site located in the Mexican state of Chiapas; it is best known for its occupation during the Late Formative period. The site…

Kabah

Kabah is a Maya archaeological site in the Puuc region of western Yucatan, south of Mérida. Kabah is south of Uxmal, connected to that site by an 18 kilometres long raised…

Kinichná

Kinichná es una zona arqueológica maya ubicada al sur del estado de Quintana Roo, México, que forma parte del complejo monumental de Dzibiché. La ciudad floreció entre los siglos…

Kiuic

Kiuic is a Maya archaeological site in the Puuc region of Yucatan, Mexico, with occupation spanning from c. 800 BC to its abandonment around 880 AD. The name derives from the Maya…

Kohunlich

Kohunlich is a large Maya archaeological site in Quintana Roo, Mexico, spanning 21 acres of dense subtropical rainforest with nearly 200 largely unexcavated mounds. First reported…

Kulubá

Kulubá is an ancient Maya civilization city and archeological site in Mexico. It is located in Tizimín Municipality, northeast Yucatan. The site contains a palace, an altar, ruins…

Labna

Labna is a Mesoamerican archaeological site and ceremonial center of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the Puuc Hills region of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is situated…

Lagartero

A Maya archaeological site located on islands within the Lagos de Colon lake system in the Municipality of La Trinitaria, southeastern Chiapas, Mexico, near the Guatemalan border.…

Lambityeco

Lambityeco is a small archaeological site of the Zapotec civilization located about three kilometers west of the city of Tlacolula de Matamoros in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The…

La Quemada

La Quemada is an archeological site. It is located in the Villanueva Municipality, in the state of Zacatecas, about 56 km south of the city of Zacatecas on Fed 54…

Las Flores

Las Flores is an archaeological site of the Huastec civilization located in modern Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

La Venta

La Venta is a pre-Columbian archaeological site of the Olmec civilization located in the present-day Mexican state of Tabasco. La Venta was a civic and ceremonial center. As a…

Los Guachimontones

Los Guachimontones is the largest Late Formative to Classic period pre-Columbian archaeological site in the state of Jalisco. Los Guachimontones is one of several dozen Teuchitlán…

Mayapan

Mayapan is a Pre-Columbian Maya site a couple of kilometers south of the town of Telchaquillo in Tecoh Municipality, approximately 40 km south-east of Mérida and 100 km west of…

Mitla

Mitla is the second most important archaeological site in Oaxaca, Mexico. Its Nahuatl name Mictlan means "place of the dead," while the Zapotec name Lyobaa means "place of rest".…

Monte Alban

Monte Albán is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán Municipality in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The partially excavated civic…

Moral-Reforma

Moral-Reforma is a Maya archaeological site in Mexico, about 70 miles (110 km) northeast of Palenque. Yuknoom the Great, the ruler of Calakmul, supervised the accession of…

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. It is located approximately 15…

Ndachjian-Tehuacán

Ndachjian-Tehuacán is an archaeological zone in Puebla, Mexico, dating to 500–1000 AD and built by the Popoloca people. The site features a temple complex with a large pyramid and…

Noh Kah

Noh Kah is an ancient Maya city covering approximately 84 acres in the jungles of southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, near the Rio Hondo and the Belize border. Dating to the Early…

Oxkintok

Oxkintok is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in the Puuc region of Yucatán state, in southeastern Mexico. The site of Oxkintok was first described in the 16th century by…

Palenque

Palenque, also anciently known in the Itzaʼ language as Lakamha, was a Maya city-state in southern Mexico that perished in the 8th century. The Palenque ruins date from ca. 226 BC…

Paquime

Casas Grandes (Spanish for Great Houses; also known as Paquimé) is a prehistoric archaeological site in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Settlement began after 1130 AD.…

Paso del Macho

Paso del Macho is a Middle Preclassic Maya village in the eastern Puuc region of Yucatan, Mexico, with occupation beginning in the early Middle Preclassic (c. 900-600 BC).…

Plan de Ayutla

Plan de Ayutla (Sak tz'i) is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in the municipality of Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico. The ruins are notable for having the earliest urban remains…

Purepecha Digs

A 4,500-year-old skeleton was discovered in volcanic ash, with the individual's upper front teeth removed, possibly to accommodate ceremonial dentures fashioned from jaguar or…

Purépecha Proto Urban Site

A Purepecha (Tarascan) proto-urban settlement in Michoacan, Mexico, dating to AD 1000-1520. The site contains over 1,300 documented architectural features including house mounds,…

Quiahuiztlan

An ancient Totonac city, cemetery, and fortress perched on Cerro de los Metates in Actopan municipality, Veracruz, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. The site flourished from the…

Sacapu Angamuco

A major Purepecha urban settlement in the Lake Patzcuaro Basin of Michoacan, Mexico, spanning roughly AD 900 to 1350. LiDAR mapping revealed over 40,000 building foundations…

Santa Rosa Xtampak

Xtampak (also known as Santa Rosa Xtampak) is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche. A major town in the Chenes region, it flourished during the Late Classic…

Tabasqueno

El Tabasqueno is a Chenes Maya archaeological site in Hopelchen municipality, Campeche, first documented by explorer Teobert Maler in 1887. Founded around the 2nd century AD, it…

Tamtoc

Tamtoc, Tamtok or Tamohí is an archaeological site of the Huastec culture, located in the municipality of Tamuín in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. One of the…

Tenam Puente

Tenam Puente is an archaeological site of the Maya culture located in the Balum Canan valley, in the municipality of La Trinitaria, 12 kilometers south of Comitán, Chiapas, in…

Teotenango

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

Tepoztlan

Tepoztlán is derived from Nahuatl and means "place of abundant copper" or "place of the broken rocks." This is derived from the words tepoz-tli and tlan. The earliest findings of…

Teteles de Santo Nombre

Teteles de Santo Nombre is an ancient town in Puebla, Mexico, occupied for over a millennium. The site features two restored pyramidal structures standing 7 and 14 metres tall,…

Tingambato

Tingambato (also Tinganio) is an archaeological site in Michoacan, Mexico, between Patzcuaro and Uruapan. Its first stage began around 450 AD with ceremonial platforms and…

Tlalpan

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 centered on the Plaza…

Tonina

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 km east of the town of…

Tres Zapotes

Tres Zapotes is a Mesoamerican archaeological site located in the south-central Gulf Lowlands of Mexico in the Papaloapan River plain. Founded some time in the centuries before…

Tula

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 main attraction…

Tulum

Tulum is the site of a pre-Columbian Mayan walled city which served as a major port for Coba, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The ruins are situated on 12-meter-tall cliffs…

Tzintzuntzan

Tzintzuntzan was the ceremonial center of the pre-Columbian Purépecha capital of the same name. The name comes from the Purépecha word Ts’intsuntsani, which means "place of…

Uxmal

Uxmal 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…

Uxul

Uxul is an ancient Maya settlement in Campeche, Mexico, dating from the Preclassic to the Classic period (1–500 AD). It was a powerful city with monumental architecture, including…

Xcambo

Xcambó is a Maya archaeological site on the northeast coast of Yucatán, Mexico. During the Classic period, it functioned as a major coastal city and salt production center,…

Xcaret

Xcaret is a Maya civilization archaeological site on the Caribbean coastline of the Yucatán Peninsula in Quintana Roo, Mexico. The site was occupied by the pre-Columbian Maya and…

Xelha

Xelha is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization from pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, located on the eastern coastline of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the present-day state of…

Xiol (Mérida)

Xiol ('Spirit of Man' in Mayan) is a Maya archaeological site in the municipality of Kanasin, about 12km from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Built between 600 and 900 AD, it was home to…

Xlapak

Xlapak (or Xlapac) is a small Maya archaeological site in the Yucatan Peninsula of southeastern Mexico. It is located in the heart of the Puuc region, about 4 kilometres from the…

Xochicalco

Xochicalco is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Miacatlán in the western part of the Mexican state of Morelos. The architecture and iconography of Xochicalco show affinities…

Xpuhil

Archaeological evidence at the site indicates that Xpuhil could have been settled as early as the Early Classic period, but the majority of architecture and artifacts from the…

Xtojil Cenote

Xtojil Cenote is a small Maya settlement near Libre Union in Yucatan, Mexico, approximately 20 km from Chichen Itza. Archaeological excavations uncovered a dozen Maya burial sites…

Yagul

Yagul is an archaeological site and former city-state associated with the Zapotec civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, located in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Yagul was…

Yaxchilan

Yaxchilan is an ancient Maya city located on the bank of the Usumacinta River in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. In the Late Classic Period Yaxchilan was one of the most powerful…

Yaxuna

Yaxuna is a Maya archaeological site in the municipality of Yaxcabá, Yucatán, Mexico.

Zempoala

Cempoala or Zempoala is an important Mesoamerican archaeological site in the municipality of Úrsulo Galván in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It lies on the flat coastal plain,…

Zona Arqueológica Chinkultic

Chinkultic (Maya for 'stepped cenote') is an ancient Maya archaeological site in Chiapas, Mexico, within the Lagunas de Montebello National Park. The city flourished during the…

Zona Arqueológica de Cholula

Cholula was an important city of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, dating back to at least the 2nd century BC, with settlement as a village going back at least some thousand years…

Acatitlan

Acatitlan is an archaeological zone located in the town of Santa Cecilia, in the municipality of Tlalnepantla de Baz in the State of Mexico, about 10 km northwest of modern Mexico…

Cañada de la Virgen

Cañada de la Virgen is an Otomi archaeological site in Mexico. Located in the state of Guanajuato, the site was first excavated in 1995, while the official excavation began in…

Cuicuilco

Cuicuilco is an 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. The…

El Cerrito

El Cerrito is an archaeological zone in the central Mexican state of Querétaro. It is located in the municipality of Corregidora on the outskirts of the state capital, Santiago de…

Huapalcalco Pyramid

Huapalcalco is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site located approximately 5 kilometres north of Tulancingo, in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. The site is situated on…

Tenayuca

Tenayuca is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the Valley of Mexico. In the Postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology, Tenayuca was a settlement on the former…

Teotihuacan - Pyramid of the Moon

The Pyramid of the Moon is the second-largest pyramid in Teotihuacan, after the Pyramid of the Sun, and located in modern-day San Martín de las Pirámides. The Pyramid of the Moon…

Teotihuacan - Pyramid of the Sun

The Pyramid of the Sun is the largest building in Teotihuacan, and one of the largest in Mesoamerica. Found along the Avenue of the Dead, in between the Pyramid of the Moon and…

Teotihuacan - Temple of Quetzalcoatl

The Temple of the Feathered Serpent is the third largest pyramid at Teotihuacan, located within the Ciudadela complex at the south end of the Avenue of the Dead. Built between 150…

Tepeapulco Pyramid

Tepeapulco Pyramid is a stepped pyramid located in the Hidalgo region of central Mexico.

Tipitarillo Yacata

Tipitarillo Yacata is a pre-Columbian pyramid complex located near the village of Tipitarillo in the Michoacán region of western Mexico. The monument is a Yacata-type pyramid…

Xihuacan

Xihuacan is a Mesoamerican archaeological site on the Costa Grande of Guerrero, Mexico, near La Soledad de Maciel, Zihuatanejo and Petatlán. Occupied for over 3,000 years by three…

Xochitecatl

Xochitecatl [ʃot͡ʃiˈtekat͡ɬ] is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located in the Mexican State of Tlaxcala, 18 km southwest of Tlaxcala city. The major architecture dates to the…

Zona Arqueológica Teopanzolco

Teopanzolco is an Aztec archaeological site in the Mexican state of Morelos. Most of the visible remains date from the Middle to Late Postclassic Period. Teopanzolco was built…

Balankanche Cave

Balankanche is an ancient Maya cave site lying at short distance from the archaeological Maya-Toltec city of Chichen Itza. For more than two thousand years, it has been the focus…

Grottos of Juxtlahuaca

Juxtlahuaca, or Xiuxtlahuaca, is a cave and archaeological site in the Mexican state of Guerrero containing murals linked to the Olmec motifs and iconography. Along with the…

Grutas de Loltún

Loltún Cave is an archaeological cave site in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, located approximately 7 km south of Oxkutzcab. The cave contains Maya rock art dating to the Late…

Hoyo Negro Cenote

Hoyo Negro ("Black Hole") is a submerged cenote within the Sac Actun cave system near Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Discovered in 2007 by divers, it contained the skeleton of…

Madera Caves

The Madera Caves are a series of archaeological cave sites in the Ciudad Madera region of Chihuahua, Mexico, used by the Paquimé culture from 500 to 1000 AD. Located in the Sirupa…

Nuevo Ojo de Agua Cave

Nuevo Ojo de Agua Cave is a pre-Columbian burial site in Chiapas, Mexico. 167 human remains deposited in the cave, dating to approximately 900 AD. The bodies were discovered by…

San Manuel Cenote

San Manuel Cenote is a natural sinkhole in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Archaeological elements recovered confirm the cenote was used for ritual purposes in the pre-Hispanic era.

Tahtzibichen Labyrinth

The Tahtzibichen Labyrinth is the remains of an ancient temple in Yucatan, Mexico. This natural cave labyrinth contains stone temples, small pyramids, and a causeway. Most…

Valley of the Caves, Chihuahua

Cuarenta Casas (Spanish for 'Forty Houses') is a Mogollon culture archaeological site in Chihuahua, Mexico, dating to 500–1000 AD. The site features cliff dwellings constructed…

Xihuatoxtla

Xihuatoxtla is a rock shelter in the Rio Balsas valley, Guerrero, Mexico, formed beneath a massive boulder. Archaeological excavations have uncovered grinding tools and knapped…

Mérida Anthropological Museum

The Museo Regional de Antropologia de Yucatan, housed in the Palacio Canton on Paseo de Montejo in Merida, Mexico. Built between 1904 and 1911 in Beaux Arts style for Governor…

Museo de Antropologia de Xalapa

The Museo de Antropología de Xalapa is an anthropological museum in Xalapa, Veracruz, eastern Mexico, part of Veracruzana University. The museum houses artifacts from Mesoamerican…

Museo de la Arquitectura Maya

The Museum of Maya Architecture is housed in the Baluarte de Nuestra Senora de la Soledad, a coastal fort completed in 1692 as the largest of eight bastions defending San…

Museo Nacional de Antropología

The Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico, located within Chapultepec Park. Designed by architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez,…

Museo Regional de Antropologia Carlos Pellier

Opened on February 16, 1980, in Villahermosa, Tabasco, this museum is named after the Tabascan poet Carlos Pellicer Camara. It houses approximately 10,000 archaeological pieces,…

Parque Museo La Venta

Parque Museo La Venta is an open-air museum in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, created in 1958 by artist Carlos Pellicer Camara to preserve Olmec artifacts threatened by petroleum…

San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán Museum

San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan is the collective name for three related Olmec archaeological sites in southeastern Veracruz, Mexico. It was the first Olmec centre to demonstrate…

Aguada Fénix

Aguada Fénix is a Preclassic Maya archaeological site in Tabasco, Mexico, near the Guatemala border, discovered by aerial lidar survey in 2020. The massive earthen platform…

Careyeros Hill

Careyeros Hill is a ridgetop archaeological site in Nayarit, Mexico, featuring drystone constructions dating to approximately 200 BC. The complex includes an astronomical…

Cerro De Trincheras

Cerro De Trincheras is a pre-Columbian terraced town site in Sonora, Mexico, dating to 1350-1450 AD. Built on a hillside overlooking the Sonoran Desert, the settlement features…

El Azuzul

El Azuzul is an Olmec archaeological site in Veracruz, Mexico, a few kilometers south of the San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán complex and generally considered contemporary with it…

Huandacareo

Huandacareo (or Guandacareo) is an archaeological zone located about 60 kilometers north of the city of Morelia, in the state of Michoacán. The site was constructed on an elevated…

San Claudio

San Claudio is a Maya archaeological site in the municipality of Tenosique, Tabasco, Mexico, situated in the transition zone between the Guatemalan Petén highlands and the Gulf of…

Copalita Eco-Archaeological Park

Pre-Hispanic archaeological site in Mexico's Oaxaca region featuring a ball court and two uncovered temples. The complex includes a museum and jungle trail to a clifftop lookout…

Isla de Sacrificios

Isla de Sacrificios is an island in the Gulf of Mexico, situated off the Gulf coastline near the port of Veracruz, in Mexico. The island received its name when it was charted by…

San Gervasio

San Gervasio is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the northern third of the island of Cozumel off the northeastern coast of the Yucatán…

Tenochtitlan - Templo Mayor

The Templo Mayor (from Spanish: 'Main Temple') was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenōchtitlan, which is now Mexico City. Its architectural style…

Xaman-Ha

Xaman-Ha was a significant coastal Maya settlement strategically positioned in present-day Playa del Carmen's Playacar area. Operating during the Post Classic period…

Colima - Eastern Shaft Tomb

Colima's shaft tombs are part of the Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition, dating primarily from 500 BC to 600 AD. These underground mortuary structures feature vertical shafts dug…

La Florida (Zacatecas) Shaft Tomb

La Florida Shaft Tomb is a significant archaeological necropolis located near the farming village of La Florida in Zacatecas, Mexico, dating from 500-1000 AD. This 1,600-year-old…

Mitla, Entrance to Tomb 1

Tomb 1 at Mitla is located within the Group of Columns, accessible via the patio in front of the northern building's staircase. The tomb features a cruciform plan, roofed by…

Chichén Itzá

Chichen Itza was a major focal point in the Northern Maya Lowlands from the Late Classic (c. 600–900 AD) through the Terminal Classic (c. 800–900 AD) and into the early portion of…

Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, which is located in the State of Mexico. Teotihuacan is known today as the site of…

Boca de Potrerillos

Boca de Potrerillos is a rock art site in the Sierra Madre Oriental, 14 km from Mina, Nuevo León, featuring one of Mexico's largest concentrations of prehistoric engravings across…

Cantil de las animas

A 4-metre-long petroglyph panel in Nayarit, Mexico, carved between 850 and 1350 AD by the Aztlan culture. The panel features fertility symbols including rain clouds, sectioned…

Chichén Viejo

Chichen Viejo ('Old Chichen') is a Maya elite residential complex located about one kilometre south of El Castillo within the broader Chichen Itza site. Measuring roughly 150 by…

Teotihuacan - Tetitla

Tetitla is an elite residential compound located 500 meters west of the Avenue of the Dead at Teotihuacan, inhabited from 350 to 550 CE. The complex contains 120 painted walls…

La Pintada

La Pintada is an archaeological site located some 60 kilometers south of the city of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, within the "La Pintada" canyon, part of the "Sierra Libre". La…

Las Labradas

Las Labradas is an archaeological site on the coast of San Ignacio municipality in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, containing the largest concentration of petroglyphs in the country…

Arroyo el Concho

A collection of cave and cliff dwellings in the Sierra Madre region of Chihuahua, Mexico, dating to approximately 900-1100 AD. The site contains pottery sherds, chipped stone…

Cascajal Block

The Cascajal Block was discovered by road builders in the late 1990s in a pile of debris in the village of Lomas de Tacamichapan in the Veracruz lowlands in the ancient Olmec…

Chalcatzingo

Chalcatzingo is a Mesoamerican archaeological site in the Valley of Morelos dating from the Formative Period of Mesoamerican chronology. The site is well known for its extensive…

Conchalito

Conchalito is an archaeological site in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The site features a high concentration of pre-Hispanic burials.

Cuatro Cienegas Footprints

Dainzú

Dainzú is a Zapotec archaeological site located in the eastern side of the Valles Centrales de Oaxaca, about 20 km south-east of the city of Oaxaca, Oaxaca State. The site was…

El Cedral

El Cedral is the oldest Maya settlement on Cozumel island, Mexico, dating to around 800 AD and serving as the island's capital and largest community. Once a bustling center of…

El Tepozteco

El Tepozteco is an archaeological site in the Mexican state of Morelos. It consists of a small temple to Tepoztēcatl, the Aztec god of the alcoholic beverage pulque. In the middle…

La Cobata

La Cobata is an Olmec sculptured stone artifact from ancient Mesoamerica, discovered in 1970 as the fifteenth colossal head recorded. This massive basalt sculpture measures…

Lamay

Lamay is an ancient Maya architectural complex forming part of the larger Dzibanche settlement in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico. Dzibanche became a major political center linked…

Miramar

Miramar is an archaeological site in the Maya region of Campeche, Mexico.

Museo Regional de Campeche

The Museo Regional de Campeche, housed in the 18th-century Fuerte de San Miguel fortress, opened in 1986 as the Museo Arqueológico de Campeche. This two-story building displays a…

Nevado de Toluca

Nevado de Toluca is a stratovolcano in central Mexico, located about 80 km west of Mexico City near Toluca. It is the fourth highest peak in Mexico, after Pico de Orizaba,…

Ojo de Agua

Ojo de Agua is an Early Formative period (1200-1000 BC) archaeological site on the Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico, in the ancient province of Soconusco. Covering approximately…

Tayata

Tayata is an ancient settlement in Oaxaca's Mixteca Region of southwestern Mexico. Occupied from approximately 1000 BC to 300 BC, it predates the Classical Period Mixteca culture…

Teotihuacan - Palace Atelelco

Palace Atetelco is an archaeological complex within the ancient city of Teotihuacán, located in the Valley of Mexico northeast of modern-day Mexico City. The complex consists of…

Texcotzingo

Texcotzingo is claimed to be one of the first extant botanical gardens in the world, along with Moctezuma's gardens in Huastepec. The gardens and archaeological site are located…

Tubuco

Tubuco is the first discovered pre-Columbian port on Mexico's Gulf Coast, dating to 900-1200 AD. Excavations began in October 2012. In the northeast section, archaeologists…