![Guatemalan Tikal ruins](https://wp-media.patheos.com/blogs/sites/186/2016/05/800px-Tikal_mayan_ruins_2009.jpg)
The structures shown here postdate the period of the Book of Mormon. Although they were long used quite uncritically in popular Latter-day Saint publications on archaeology and the Book of Mormon, many of the most spectacular ruins in Mesoamerica are actually too late.
A nice essay from back on 30 April of this year, by Neal Rappleye:
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