Dzibilchaltun

Dzibilchaltún is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán, approximately 10 miles north of the state capital of Mérida [1]. The site has been continuously occupied for thousands of years, although it has expanded into a mid-sized city and contracted back to a small town more than once in its long history [1]. While many of the stelae at the site are eroded, the site had at least one king who was memorialized on Stela 10; his name was K'alo'mte' Uk'uuw Chan Chaahk [1]. The most famous structure is the Temple of the Seven Dolls, so named because of seven small effigies found at the site when the temple was discovered under the ruins of a later temple pyramid by archaeologists in the 1950s [1]. The other major feature of Dzibilchaltún is its cenote, Cenote Xlakah, located around the center of the city's ruins [1]. Archaeological findings retrieved from the cenote by divers indicate that it was the center of a religious cult [1]. Similar to Chichen Itza, a large number of archaeological pieces like carved bones and wooden objects, but mainly vases, have been found in the cenote [1].