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Where in the world
Mexico
Edzna
Maya · Mexico
Field notes
- civilizations
- Maya
- types
- Ceremonial pyramid · City
- occupied
- 400 BCE — 1,500 CE
- country
- Mexico
The site
Edzná, meaning House of the Itzaes, is a Maya archaeological site in the north of Campeche, Mexico, inhabited from around 400 BCE until roughly 1500 CE. Its most remarkable building is the main temple, raised on a 40-metre platform that commands a wide view of the surrounding lowlands. A ball court of two parallel structures also survives, and in the Late Classic period Edzná fell within the orbit of the Calakmul polity.
