Often they were decorated with mosaics.

Mesoamerica

In Teotihuacan's unique grid-planned layout, elaborate palace compounds such as the Palace of Quetzalpapálotl, located southwest of the Pyramid of the Moon, featured facades and columns decorated with low-relief carvings. This palace's open patio was surrounded by heavy stone columns incised on three sides with bas-reliefs, adorned with water symbols

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