Cacaxtla
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Cacaxtla is an archaeological site located near the southern border of the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. It contains a sprawling palace with vibrantly colored murals painted in Maya style. The nearby sit
The Gran Basamento, protected by its sheet-metal roof
View over the top of the Gran Basamento
Cacaxtla pyramid mound no. 1
Cacaxtla Battle Mural (left)
Cholula (Mesoamerican site)
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Cholula was an important city of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, dating back to at least the 2nd century BC, with settlement as a village going back at least some thousand years earlier. The site of Cholul
Cacaxtla
…the "Olmeca", although what we today refer to as the Olmec culture ended ~400 BCE, that is, almost 800 years earlier. After the fall of the nearby city Cholula (c. 650 – 750) — in which the Cacaxtlecas might have been involved — Cacaxtla became the hegemonic power in this part of the Tlaxcala–Puebla valley…
Great Pyramid of Cholula
Basalt head sculpture
The massacre of Cholula, as depicted in the Lienzo de Tlaxcala (1584)
The Massacre of Cholula by Félix Parra (1845-1919)