An Early Classic Maya city-state in the Petén Basin some 19 km north of Tikal; it holds the oldest confirmed Maya Long Count inscription in the lowlands (AD 328, on Stela 9), which gave the site its modern name ('Eight Stone,' after the 8th Baktun). Uaxactun was an independent rival power to Tikal through the 4th century.
In AD 378, Uaxactun was defeated by Tikal's forces under Siyaj K'ak' ('Fire is Born'), a general with Teotihuacan ties — a watershed 'entrada' event that reordered Classic Maya politics across the Petén. Uaxactun continued afterward as a subordinate center under Tikal's hegemony, retaining elite privileges (monument-carving, temple-building, rich burials) into the Late Classic; its last inscribed monument dates to AD 889, and the site was largely abandoned with Tikal by the Terminal Classic.
The atlas holds 5 border frames for Uaxactun — the shape you scrub through changes in 250 · 600 · 751 · 761 · 851.
Wikipedia's own account of the Tikal-Uaxactun war cites this book by name: 'Linda Schele, in A Forest of Kings, devotes an entire chapter to a war between Tikal and Uaxactun.'
The original Carnegie Institution excavation report on Uaxactun (group E and adjacent structures), the foundational archaeological record of the site.