A Puuc-style Maya city in the western Yucatán Peninsula, Uxmal rose to become one of the greatest Terminal Classic centers of the northern Maya lowlands, renowned for the Pyramid of the Magician and the Governor's Palace and linked by raised causeways (sacbeob) to the nearby cities of Kabah, Sayil, and Labná.
Uxmal's major dated building programs, including the Nunnery Quadrangle and the ballcourt dedicated in 901, fall in the 9th and early 10th centuries; the city declined with the wider Puuc region after c. 1000 and was gradually abandoned, later documented by 19th-century explorers John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood.
Focused archaeological monograph on Uxmal by the excavator of Palenque's Temple of the Inscriptions; verified on Open Library.