Architecture
 From
the Formativo period, they were begun to make some architectonic constructions
that had influences of other cultures, in special of olmeca. Later, the Mayan
architecture was clarified by mythical and religious ideas; for that reason, in
downtown to temples and palaces, cities and games of ball rose; whereas the houses
of the people of the town were constructed in the environs.
In the Classic
period the own architectonic elements arose, like the call corbelado arc or Mayan
arc, the superposed terraces, the moldaduras, the watersheds and the columns that
when mixing itself, gave rise to different known architectonic styles like: Petén
style, with constructions with base in staggered terraces, heavy walls, bodies
in slope, high stairs outside the facade, watersheds upon the later wall and ornamentación
with stucco large masks. They are in sites like Calakmul in Mexico, Black Tikal
and stones in Guatemala.
 The
Palenque style has characteristics like plinths of vertical bodies, stairs with
alfardas, facades decorated with stucco figures, watersheds in the wall of the
center and temples of two cameras; being the later one used like sanctuary, style
that this one present in Yaxchilán, Palenque and Bonampak in Mexico and
Copan; Honduras and Quirigúa in Guatemala. In the interior of the Temple
of the Inscriptions, in Palenque, a mortuary camera was in 1952 and in June of
1994 it was discovered in a connected building, another tomb with the same magnificencia
of first. The style Bec River characterizes by the use of streamlined piramidales
plinths, appeared perrons that resemble discharges towers to the sides of the
temple and the ornamentación done with stone mosaics. It is observed in
Xpuhil, River Bec and Hormiguero in Mexico. The Chenes style was developed the
Puuc along with and both they present/display seemed elements, like are the staggered
plinths of body in slope, vertical watersheds in the frontal part, columns and
frisos and the decoration based on stone mosaics that are formed in large masks,
columnillas, lattice windows, tamborcillos and panels. He is present in Labná,
Kabáh, Uxmal, Sayil, Hochob and Edzná in Mexico.
In
Uxmal they are some of the most beautiful constructions of this style, like the
Pyramid of Adivino and the Palace of the Governor.
 The
Puuc style mainly has differences in the decoration, done with wrought and trimmed
stone in form of mosaics put in the frisos and not in all the facade.
Finally,
the Mexican style or Maya-Tolteca arose by influence from the culture tolteca,
although also it has elements, the stairs with heads of serpents in the inferior
part and the altars decorated with skulls, like in Chichen Itzá, Tulum
and Mayapán in Mexico
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