People surround the Kukulcan Pyramid at the Mayan archaeological site of Chichen Itza in Yucatan State, Mexico, during the celebration of the spring equinox. Hugo Borges/Getty Images A German ...

Thursday (March 20) marks the start of the spring season for the Northern Hemisphere and fall in the Southern Hemisphere, with the arrival of the vernal equinox. On this day, the sun appears directly ...

This event is one of the most anticipated because it marks the arrival of the Spring Equinox. This is not ... that dominates the centre of the Chichen Itza archaeological site.

As the sun lowers in the sky in the late afternoon following the equinox, light and shadow create the form of a descending snake slithering down the temple’s northern staircase. It aligns with a ...

Humans have had a love affair with spring and all thing celestial. In Mexico, the Mayan site Chichén Itzá has special equinox ties. At the site, the impressive pyramid known as El Castillo was aligned ...

Two tourists were arrested at Chichén Itzá — a popular destination at the spring equinox, when a snake-like shadow crawls up the pyramid known as El Castillo. (Martín Zetina/Cuartoscuro ...

Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, is based on the spring equinox, for example. And at the Mayan site Chichen Itza in Mexico, people gather during the equinox to watch the sun create a shadow pattern ...

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Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, is based on the spring equinox, for example. And at the Mayan site Chichen Itza in Mexico, people gather during the equinox to watch the sun create a shadow pattern ...