The site is located in the central/southern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula, in southern Mexico and includes the remains of the important Maya city Calakmul, set deep in the tropical forest of the ...

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the site’s Maya name, seems to have had a special status in the Snake kingdom. Its princes went to Calakmul for education, and three of them wedded Snake princesses. Unlike the martial city of ...

The first published account of this lost city was in 1567 ... at the site suggest the site came under attack by another Maya center, Calakmul, in 599 and again in 611. "This attack was the ...

Unlike other Maya cities, Calakmul has two giant pyramids, making it unique. The city contains more than 120 stelae, the largest collection of Maya inscriptions found anywhere, chronicling royal ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...