A Classic Maya city in the Petexbatún region of Petén founded in AD 629 by an offshoot of Tikal's royal dynasty to control trade along the Pasión River; it broke with Tikal in 648 to become a vassal of Calakmul and, with its twin capital Aguateca, built an aggressive conquest state (the Petexbatún Kingdom) whose court intrigues and wars are unusually well documented in hieroglyphic texts.
The ruling dynasty collapsed amid warfare around AD 761 — the palace was abandoned and fortified with hastily built defensive walls — as part of the wider unraveling of Petexbatún polities; the population dispersed to more defensible sites (notably Aguateca) before the region was largely abandoned by the early 9th century, part of the Classic Maya collapse.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Dos Pilas — the shape you scrub through changes in 629 · 751.
Dynastic history of Dos Pilas's rulers and its wars with Tikal and Calakmul, reconstructed from hieroglyphic texts.
Standard synthesis covering Late Classic Petexbatún political history and the Dos Pilas-Aguateca dynasty.