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The site is called Xiol, which is believed to have been occupied by more than 4,000 people between 600 and 900 AD. It consists of nearly 100 structures with features related to the Mayan Puuc style, an architecture characterized by carefully-cut veneer stones set onto a concrete core, with...

Archaeologists have uncovered a roughly 1,300-year-old sculpture representing the head of a Mayan maize god in ruins in southeastern Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said.

The site, called Xiol, has features of the Mayan Puuc style of architecture

KANASIN, Mexico—Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city filled with palaces, pyramids, and plazas on ...

Known as Xiol, which means Spirit of Man in Mayan, the city is thought to have been home to around 4,000 people between 600 and 900 A.D.

Archaeologists discover ancient Mayan city at Mexico construction site

Archaeologists discover ancient Mayan city on construction site

As per the report, burial grounds of adults and children have been located nearby. Marine life were also discovered in the area 

Archeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city filled with palaces, pyramids and plazas on a construction site of what is to become an industrial park near Merida, on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The site, called Xiol, has features of the Mayan Puuc style of architecture, archeologists said, which is common in the southern Yucatan Peninsula, but rare near Merida. “We think more than 4,000 people lived around here,” said Carlos Peraza, one of the archeologists who led the ex...

Researchers estimate the city, which features the Mayan Puuc style of architecture, to have been occupied from AD600 to 900