Ancient World

Cihuatán

Cihuatán is a major pre-Columbian archaeological site in central El Salvador. It was a large urban center situated at the southernmost extent of the Mesoamerican cultural area. The site dates to the Early Postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology, approximately AD 950–1200. Archaeological investigations at Cihuatán were conducted during the mid to late 1970s by Karen Olsen Bruhns of San Francisco State University in collaboration with El Salvador's Administración de Patrimonio Cultural (Cultural Heritage Administration). By 1980, the project had mapped 63 hectares (6,800,000 sq ft) of the site, encompassing more than 900 structures.

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• ▸Archaeological forgery
• ▸Fräkmündt
• ▸Cave of the Seven Sleepers

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