History of Chicanna
The early history of Chicanna reveals a simple community steadily growing. Then it erected several incredible buildings. So who built Chicanna and why?
History of Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan played a central role in proliferating urban planning and multicultural society across Mesoamerica. Even the Aztec, 700 years after the city had fallen, were greatly influenced by its ideologies.
Xochicalco: A Brief History
With an intense but small period of occupancy, between 650-900AD, and home to many cultural and artistic influences, Xochicalco’s rapid rise and fall is one of Mesoamerica’s greatest mysteries,
Teopanzolco: A Brief History
Teopanzolco is dominated by a half completed Great Platform and the mystery surrounding its abandonment. But the region’s mysterious history goes back a lot further…
Teotenango: A Brief History
The mysteriously rapid construction of Teotenango’s two cities and its meteoric expansion during the Late Classic Period could explain another of Mesoamerica’s enduring mysteries…
La Quemada (Chicomoztoc): A Brief History
The history of La Quemada is both mysterious and perplexing, and recent discoveries which push its founding back to the 4th century have only added to this mystique.
Malinalco: A Brief History
Malinalco history is largely entwined in myth and folklore and yet a few historical accounts and a small archaeological site do seem to support its legendary past.
Altun Ha: A Brief History
Altun Ha’s earliest development provides intriguing links to Teotihuacan and Tikal, with jade being central to its wealth and growth throughout its 1000 year existence…
Lamanai: A Brief History
Lamanai has an incredibly long history, with the earliest signs of inhabitance dating to 1500BC and the site being abandoned after the Spanish left in the 18th Century…
Las Sepulturas: A Brief History
Las Sepulturas was home to the wealthiest families of Copan, but with buildings dating back to 1000BC and Structure 9N-82, it seems it was much more than a exclusive suburb…
Copán: A Brief History
Although fundamentally Copan was a Mayan City that controlled trade on the southern frontier of Mesoamerica, the majority of its history is both mysterious and very intriguing…