Database: Mayan Temples (Resynced)

Dating generally from the Mayan Classic period (AD 250 – 900), most Mayan ruins can be found throughout the Yucatán Peninsula and Central America. Mayan Temples have steep stone steps and a platform at the top for wooden crowning structures. Mayan architecture is composed with a sophisticated eye to decoration, often using wall paintings and elaborate bas-relief stone carvings. Mayan arches forego the use of a keystone, instead creating a triangle-like arch known as a corbel vault.