Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. V. , No. 3. Preliminary Study of the Prehistoric Ruins of Nakum, Guatemala. A Report of the Peabody Museum Expedition 1909-1910

Author: Alfred Marston Tozzer (1877-1954) Year: 1913Publisher: Peabody Museum PressPlace: CambridgeDescription: 139-201+[22 plates] pages with with folding map, photographs, maps, figures, illustrations, drawings, bibliography and index. Folio (14" x 11") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. V. , No. 3. First edition.Nakum  is a Mesoamerican archaeological site, and a former ceremonial center and city of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the northeastern portion of the Petén Basin region, in the modern-day Guatemalan department of Petén. The northeastern Petén region contains a good number of other significant Maya sites, and Nakum is one of the three sites forming the Cultural Triangle of "Yaxha-Nakum-Naranjo". Nakum is approximately 17 kilometres (10.6 mi) to the north of Yaxha and some 25 kilometres (15.5 mi) to the east of Tikal, on the banks of the Holmul River.[1]