This sacred site was one of the greatest Mayan centres of the Yucatán peninsula. Throughout its nearly 1,000-year history, different peoples have left their mark on the city. The Maya and Toltec ...
Montero and de Anda speculated that Maya astronomers waited inside the Holtún well for those two zenith moments in the year when a vertical pillar of sunlight pierces the water without reflecting ...
Some are more famous than others, but there’s none more famous than Chichen Itza Mayan Ruins ... the most beautiful. Inside, ...
El Castillo (The Castle), a 98-foot-tall pyramid, dominates the city, while the Temple of the Warriors features murals of battle scenes and village life. Tulum was the largest Maya coastal city ...
It is possible that some vague tradition of the extreme sacredness of this temple has come ... be standing in the entire Maya area the so-called Caracol at Chichen Itza was an astronomical ...
Completed at the end of the 16th century, the structure stands tall on the site of an ancient Maya temple and is constructed ... church's official website. Chichen Itza, Private Cenote / Food ...
The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has prohibited climbing the sacred Mayan building since 2008, installing a security cordon around it and announced fines ranging from ...
The site is spread over 30 square miles, with nearly 50 roads that spool out from the site's temples and two ball courts. But the top attraction is Nohoch Mul – the highest Mayan pyramid on the ...
In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America. Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended ...