<< Our Photo Pages >> Yaxuna - Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico in Yucatan
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Multi-periodSite Name: YaxunaCountry: Mexico Region: Yucatan Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Piste
Latitude: 20.541440N Longitude: 88.66281W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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The whole royal family appear to have been massacred in ~400 CE by warriors from Tikal. It was sacked by Chichen Itza in the 9th century CE.
The city was excavated by local villagers and archaeological teams from Southern Methodist University, TX. The excavation website.
This comes up nicely in satellite view, you can make out the line of the sacbe heading off to Coba, from the building in the south-east corner.
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