At Chichén Itzá, the great Maya city on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, the largest pyramid stages an astronomical spectacle twice a year. Around the spring and autumn equinoxes, the late-afternoon sun ...
El Castillo at Chichen Itza in Mexico is a limestone step pyramid aligned with the Maya solar year. Its layered terraces turn architecture into a stone calendar. Aquarellillustration des Wahrzeichens ...
El Castillo dominates the northern platform of Chichen Itza, the former Maya city in the Mexican state of Yucatán. The pyramid is built of cut limestone blocks and rises in a series of nine ...
A Polish tourist in Mexico got a crash course in Mayan history after climbing a sacred pyramid ... locals were waiting for him when he got down, and one beat him with a stick. The wild scene, which ...
The Feathered Serpent Quetzalcoatl battled through the cotton-candy cloud, ripping at its billowing corners with razor-sharp talons. He'd been coming here for more than a thousand years, his shadow ...
Archaeologists have revealed a group of structures discovered at the famed Mayan Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, believed to have been part of a housing complex ...