El Rey archaeological site

El Rey is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Mayan culture, located in the southeast of Mexico, in the tourist resort of Cancun, in the state of Quintana Roo.

The El Rey site is located on the Mexican coast of the Caribbean Sea, in the hotel zone of the island of Cancun.

In 1909 two English travelers Channing Arnold and Frederick Frost visited the site and found an anthropomorphic sculpture of what was interpreted as a monarch or a noble person.

[1] The name El Rey ("the king") comes from a sculpture that resembles a monarch,[2] the head of which is preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Cancun.

During the excavation of a temple in 1975, archaeologists found the burial site of a person of high rank, with a copper axe, a bracelet, and ornaments of shell and bone.