Yaxchilan, located on the banks of the Usumacinta River in the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico, was an important Late Classic Maya centre. https://www.worldhistory.org/Yaxchilan/ #History #MayaArchitecture #MayaCivilization #Tikal

Tikal, located in the north of the Petén region of Guatemala, was a major Maya city which flourished between 300 and 850 CE. https://www.worldhistory.org/Tikal/ #History #MayaArchitecture #MayaCivilization #Tikal

Uxmal, in north-west Yucatán, Mexico, was an important Maya city which flourished between the 6th and 10th centuries CE. https://www.worldhistory.org/Uxmal/ #History #MayaArchitecture #MayaCivilization #Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli

Chaccoben (pronounced chac-CHO-bin) is a Maya site dated to c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Chacchoben/ #History #Chacchoben #MayaArchitecture #MayaCivilization

Joshua J. Mark goes looking for adventure while visiting the Maya site of Chichen Itza in Mexico and finds sprites, spirits and iguanas amongst the ruins.https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1394/visiting-the-spirits-of-chichen-itza/ #ChichenItza #Kukulcan #MayaArchitecture #History

Nearly 100 Maya Masterpieces Are Now on View in New York City.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Lives of the Gods exhibition is the first major US show of Maya art in the last decade. #artlovers,#HistoryMatters,#MayaArchitecture
https://hyperallergic.com/779901/maya-masterpieces-on-view-at-metropolitan-museum-nyc/