Uxmal
How did Maya masons with no metal tools, no wheel and no draft animals mass-produce tens of thousands of interchangeable, precisely cut mosaic stones — and assemble them into hundred-metre façades — in limestone hills with no river, lake or cenote to build beside?
c. 700-1000 CE (Late to Terminal Classic Maya), peaking c. 850-925 CE, with the earliest buried phase of the Pyramid of the Magician dated to the 6th century · Uxmal, Yucatán, MexicoAdded July 2026