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Where in the world
Mexico
Tulasas
Toltec · Mexico
Field notes
- civilizations
- Toltec
- types
- City · Ceremonial pyramid · Ballcourt · Palace
- built
- 900 CE — 1,100 CE
- occupied
- 650 CE — 1,150 CE
- country
- Mexico
The site
Tula is the Toltec capital in central Mexico, built around 900 CE and occupied until roughly 1150 CE. Within its urban core stand ceremonial pyramids, palaces and a ballcourt, one temple platform crowned by the Atlantes — colossal basalt warriors that once held up its roof above a shrine to the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl. Tula stands as a key window onto Toltec civilization in the centuries before the rise of the Aztecs.
