Dzibanche (/tsʼiɓänˈtʃʰe/) (sometimes spelt Tz'ibanche)[1] is an extense archaeological site of the ancient Maya civilization located in southern Quintana Roo, in the Yucatán Peninsula of southeastern Mexico.
The great extension of the site consists of 4 major architectural groups integrated by numerous monumental structures such as the Temple of the Owl and the Temple of the Cormorants, where the burial chambers and tombs of some early Kaan rulers have been found, as well as the great acropolis of the Kinichná complex, all of them unified by large sacbe roads.
[6] The ruins lie in the south of Mexico's Quintana Roo state,[7] a short distance inland from the Bacalar Lagoon.
[11] At the end of the Terminal Classic period, Dzibanche was one of the last cities in the Maya area to create a dated hieroglyphic text, in AD 909.
[15] Excavations have uncovered a hieroglyphic stairway depicting sculpted representations of bound captives,[1] captured by Yuknoom Chʼeen I, a Kaan dynasty king of Dzibanche.
[5] The K'inich Na' Pyramid is surrounded by a number of smaller palace-type structures and the group is linked to the site core by a causeway.