Twice a year, tens of thousands of visitors crowd the base of El Castillo at Chichen Itza to watch triangles of sunlight ...
Welcome to Chichén Itzá. From up here, El Castillo rises out of the jungle like it has been waiting a thousand years for this flyover. Look at those steps. Sharp lines, perfect symmetry, light slicing ...
Chichén Itzá, the Maya complex that’s now one of Mexico’s most popular tourist destinations, is getting a new museum, reports the Art Newspaper’s Elizabeth Mistry. The new facility will replace an ...
Rising to power in the wake of the Classic Maya collapse, Chichen Itz was among the largest and most influential cities of the ancient Maya, but much about its political connections and ritual life ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Temple of the Inscriptions at the ruins of the Maya city of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico. Photograph by Jon G. Fuller, ...
Renowned archaeologist Clemency C. Coggins criticized Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography for excavating the Mexican Sacred Cenote without properly accounting for the ...
El Castillo, also known as the Temple of Kukulcan, is among the largest structures at Chichén Itzá and its architecture reflects its far-flung political connections. Located in the heart of Mexico’s ...