The Maya site containing the famous, well-preserved Bonampak murals is Bonampak.
Bonampak is a Late Classic Maya archaeological site in Chiapas, Mexico, about 30 kilometers south of Yaxchilan. Its name is commonly translated as “painted walls,” an apt description of Structure 1, also called the Temple of the Murals.
The three rooms inside Structure 1 present a courtly narrative: musicians and performers appear in Room 1, warfare and the presentation of captives dominate Room 2, and celebration and ritual bloodletting fill Room 3. The paintings preserve unusually detailed scenes of clothing, music, warfare, political ceremony, and elite life.
Bonampak is sometimes confused with larger Maya centers such as Palenque, Calakmul, or Tikal. Those cities also contain important art and inscriptions, but the specific murals known worldwide as the Bonampak murals belong to Bonampak. The paintings were brought to wider non-Maya attention in 1946, after local Lacandon Maya guided explorers to the site.