La Blanca is accessed by a dirt road leading 17 kilometres (11 mi) to the highway linking Flores with Melchor de Mencos; the dirt road joins the highway at La Pólvora. In the other direction this roa ...
Aguateca and the nearby city of Dos Pilas were the twin capitals of a powerful dynasty claiming descent from the rulers of Tikal. Around 700 AD, it appears that Dos Pilas Rulers 3 and 4 were responsib ...
Cancuén was a major city during the Classic Period, reaching its peak during the 7th century. The city was a major trade center, specializing in jade, pyrite and obsidian. Its strategic position on t ...
Dos Pilas is Guatemalan Spanish for two wells (or water containers), and this is generally accepted meaning of the name, however early investigator Pierre Ivanoff has given the origin of the name as m ...
200–1000 CEThe Classic Era is so called because it saw the development and spread of highly sophisticated arts in the realm of stuccowork, architecture, sculptural reliefs, mural painting, pottery, l ...
Xultún is a large Maya archaeological site which once supported a fairly large population, the site is located 40 km northeast of Tikal and 8 km south of the smaller Preclassic site of San Bartolo in ...
The Maya city of Waka' was rediscovered by oil prospectors in the 1960s. In the 1970s Ian Graham, a Harvard researcher, documented monuments at the site. Then in 2003 David Freidel, of Southern Method ...
There is evidence of Xunantunich being settled as early as the ceramic phase of the Preclassic Period. The findings have been insubstantial to prove that Xunantunich was a site of importance. It was n ...
Toniná means house of stone in the Tzeltal language of the local Maya inhabitants, an alternate interpretation is the place where stone sculptures are raised to honour time. However, this is a modern ...
State of Aguascalientes AguascalientesState of Guanajuato CelayaIrapuatoLeónSalamancaState of Jalisco Lagos de MorenoTepatitlán de MorelosSan Juan de los LagosArandasState of Querétaro Santiago de ...
Plaza A is a twin pyramid complex to the north of the East Acropolis. It was built during the 8th century AD.Plaza B is on the west side of the East Acropolis.Plaza C is an E-Group astronomical comple ...
The archaeological site of Quiriguá is named after the nearby village of the same name, and is located a little over 200 km (120 mi) northeast of Guatemala City; it lies in the municipality of Los Am ...
The ruins are situated immediately southeast of the Río Azul ("Blue River") upon a low ridge in the extreme northeast of the department of Petén. Río Azul is bounded on the eastern side by intercon ...
"Naranjo" in Spanish language means "Orange Tree." The emblem glyph of the polity is rendered as Sa'aal, thought to mean "the place where maize gruel abounds." Another ancient Classic Maya language na ...
Surveys have revealed an average of 436 structures per square kilometer (1118 per square mile) in the site core, falling to 244 structures/km? (626/square mile) in the periphery. At its height in the ...
