Museo Maya de Cancún y Zona Arqueológica de San Miguelito
Late Postclassic Maya port ruins with a small pyramid and burials beneath ancient house floors.
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This guide to the Museo Maya de Cancún y Zona Arqueológica de San Miguelito starts underfoot: more than twenty burials found beneath the floors of ordinary houses, family life carried on directly above them. It traces the port town's working life between roughly 1200 and 1350, when boats loaded here with cotton, honey and copal incense bound for kin down the coast, and explains why even the town's real name is lost. You'll hear how San Miguelito got its current name, centuries after the Maya were gone. Climb the short pyramid stairway last, remodeled at least three times before the Spanish arrived.
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