El Castillo at Chichen Itza in Mexico is a limestone step pyramid aligned with the Maya solar year. Its layered terraces turn ...

El Castillo at Chichen Itza is a Maya step pyramid shaped as a vast stone calendar and temple to Kukulkan, where architecture ...

Archaeologists have identified a previously unknown ancient Maya city in the dense jungle of Campeche, Mexico, using airborne laser-scanning technology. The site, named Valeriana, features temple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Temple of the Inscriptions at the ruins of the Maya city of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico. Photograph by Jon G. Fuller, ...

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 ...

Being based in Playa del Carmen has been ideal for visiting the highlights of the Yucatan Peninsula. One sight that has been high on my visit list is Chichen Itza. Not counting Luxor Las Vegas or the ...

Any time you have looked at vacation pictures featuring Mexico, El Castillo is certainly not something you could have missed. It is a magnificent structure made of stone, resembling an almost perfect ...

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 ...

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 ...