Yaxuna

Yaxuna is an important archaeological site of the Maya in Mexico. It is located on the Yucatan Peninsula in the state of Yucatán, approximately 18.5 kilometers south-southwest of Chichén Itzá. Yaxuna is known as the western terminus of the Sacbé of about 100 km leads up to Coba.

Yaxuna was a medium-sized Maya city that extends more than 650 Baur Estonians on an area of ​​one and a half square kilometers. She was settled mostly in the late and Endklassik, although the origins go much further back. Since 1986, several field campaigns were carried out first by David Freidel and later by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. In the center of several buildings have been excavated and partially reconstructed.

During the Early Classic, a king was beheaded by Yaxuna and buried with his suite in the pyramid 6F -4 of Nordakropolis. The victorious followers erected a stele shows him with costume pieces that are reminiscent of central Mexico. Later this stele was desecrated after a new conquest of the place and buried behind the building. These rituals, which are detectable in other Maya cities show the symbolic meaning of buildings and monuments.