Orion rises over the Temple of Kukulkan in Chichen Itza. Click to chacmoolenate. Image credit: Stéphane Guisard. Used by permission. You really want to click that to see it in full resolution ...

Chichen Itza has gotten a bit of a bad reputation lately. After all, it does get throngs of tourists every day. Local people ...

The Temple of Kukulkan, the Mayan snake god, has been built on top of a natural sinkhole that is 114 feet long and is up to 65 feet deep. It is capped by 13 feet of limestone that is being washed ...

(CN) — Chichén Itzá is an ancient Maya city famous for its architecture — and, among other things, its reputation for human sacrifice. After Spanish conquistadors dredged the site's sacred cenote, a ...

Chichen Itza is still there -- about a two-hour drive from Cancun. So are the cenotes. But that's where the resemblance between today's Chichen Itza and my mother's memory of the Yucatan ends.

It is more formally designated by archaeologists as Chichen Itza Structure 5B18. All four sides of the temple have approximately 91 steps. Climbing them has been banned since 2008.

The Temple of Kukulcán was built by the Mayans for the feathered serpent god Kukulcán between 800 and 900 A.D., according to Atlas Obscura.

In this Dec. 21, 2012 file photo, people gather in front of the Kukulkan temple in Chichen Itza, Mexico. Mexican experts said Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 they have discovered what may be the original ...

Even before the sun has begun to heat the pale stones of the Temple of Kukulkan pyramid and the adjacent Great Ball Court, the daily invasion of the Chichen Itza, the archeological jewel in the ...

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