The Temple of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza, also known as El Castillo, stands as a testament to the Mayan civilization's advanced understanding of astronomy and architecture. The temple's design, with its ...

The Mayans believed their gods to be immortal, and if “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Mayan Art” is any indication, that faith was well founded. The show, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until the ...

AN ANCIENT structure that could’ve been linked to serpent gods has been discovered in a Mexican jungle. Archaeologists think they’ve found proof of a disturbing cult and have high hopes that it could ...

Tourists, mystics and Maya priests accentuated the positive this morning at Mexico's best-known Maya monument, the El Castillo pyramid at Chichen Itza, on a day that some thought would bring ...

Rising through a clearing in the jungle of the Yucatán, a monumental Maya pyramid appears to touch the sky in Catherwood’s illustration of the Pyramid of Kulkulcán. Although parts of the structure are ...

The Yucatán Peninsula, in the south-east of Mexico abutting Belize, is home to the ancient Mayan people. Covered in sprawling, dense jungles, the region is distinctly unusual in its geology due to the ...