The Rough Draft at Yagul
The mosaic fretwork that made Mitla famous appears here first — and it appears already working. Where are the failures, the practice panels, the half-learned attempts that a technique with no margin for error should have left behind?
c. 500-1521 CE — the ballcourt and first civic buildings around 500-900 CE, the palaces and fortifications from c. 1250 to the Spanish conquest · Yagul, Tlacolula Valley, Oaxaca, MexicoAdded September 2026