Cacaxtla (Tlaxcala)
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Location
Tlaxcala

Country
MEXICO

Year of Research
AD 600-900

Culture
  • Cacaxtla is the name of a Late Classic to EpiclassicAD 600-900 city in the Puebla Valley, Tlaxcala, Mexico.

  • Its height, Cacaxtla with a population of about 10,000 Olmeca Xicalanca people.

  • The site is known for wonderful Maya art manipulate murals, and architectural features such as a great platform mound, temples, a granary, and at the least nine defensive moats.

  • Important murals at Cacaxtla defines agriculture the Red Temple, symbolism Temple of Venus, and magic and religion.

  • Cacaxtla conquered Cholulu in the 7th century AD and became the capital of the valley, blending Nahua, Mixtecs and Chochopolocans, until they in turn were overthrown by the Toltecs.

  • The first archaeological survey was established in the 1940s by Pedro Armilla, salvage excavations to offset damage caused by looters was completed in the 1970s by the Puebla-Tlaxcala Regional Centre.