The temple VIII of Becán

The temple VIII of Becán is a structure quite unique, it is a huge building in a single floor with towers at the ends and a huge figurehead in the façade central. Apparently he had 9 interior rooms on the top (nine is a sacred number in the mayan cosmovision). These nine rooms did not have, nor with ventilation or natural lighting, so you possibly functioned as isolation rooms for religious activities such as retreats, meditations, fasting or autosacrificios.
Becan was a huge city in the present day mexican state of Campeche, in its structure and characteristics are known that it was a huge regional capital, is renowned for being the only city that is surrounded by an artificial well, that was used both to store water and for defensive reasons.