Crossword-Solution: MITLA 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Bandelier’s investigations—Traditions in regard to Mitla—Ruins along the Panuco River—Ruins in Vera Cruz—Pyramid of Papantla—Tusapan—Character of Nahua Ruins.

Appropriately enough, tradition speaks of this as the “Place of Sadness,” or “Dwelling of the Dead.” As to the extent of territory covered by the ruins, we have not been able to learn further than the general statement that at the time of the conquest they covered an immense area.42 Wall at Mitla.

This illustration is a corner of one of these buildings, and gives us in excellent idea of the peculiar ornamentation employed at Mitla.

One reason why Mitla has been regarded as such an important place, is because it has been assumed that there were no other ruins like it, especially in Mexico.

Bandelier concludes that similar ruins once crowded the terraces at Cholula, and that to this class belongs the ruins at Mitla.