Cacaxtla Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
About Cacaxtla
The Cacaxtla site dates from the early Pre-classic period with the city's peak 650 to 900 A.D. Archaeologists were able to date the battle murals using carbon-14 analysis, which pinpointed their origen to shortly after the year 650. The city was built as a hilltop fortress with defensive terraces and moats. The city appears to have been abandoned in a gradual and systematic process with steps taken to preserve the murals in the palace leading anthropologists to believe the people intended to return at some point in the future, though they never did. The site was well known in the region and in the early 16th century, Spanish historian Diego Munoz visited and reported on the site, but nothing was done to explore it or develop the nearby area. In 1940, Pedro Armillas conducted initial survey
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