Pyramid Explorer

High Temple (Lamanai)

Orange Walk District, Belize

Terraced pyramid-temple. Height: 33 m. Date: First phase around 100 BCE; Late Classic appearance around 700 CE.

Focal point of the site's first major plaza group. At 33 m tall, its initial phase dates to about 100 BCE according to the archaeologists David Pendergast and Elizabeth Graham.

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