The Great Palace, Sayil
How did the Maya of Sayil raise a seemingly three-storey, 85-metre palace of more than ninety rooms in a hill country with no river, no lake and no cenote — and feed a city of thousands on rainwater alone, for barely two centuries before it emptied?
c. 800-1000 CE (Terminal Classic period), built in stages over a demolished Late Classic substructure · Sayil, Yucatán, MexicoAdded July 2026