Archaeologists Unearth an Intricately Carved Circular Stone Used as a Scorecard for a Ball Game 1200 Years Ago Researchers ...

Once again, unthinking and disrespectful tourists are making legitimate travelers look bad. A German tourist visiting the ...

The ancient Mayan temple, built over 1,000 years ago, is designed to create a light and shadow phenomenon during the seasonal shift.

The German tourist was arrested after he illegally scaled the side of the Temple of Kukulcan in Yucatan on March 20 Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the Yucatán from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as ...

The fusion of Mayan construction techniques with new elements from central Mexico make Chichen-Itza one of the most important examples of the Mayan-Toltec civilization in Yucatán. Several buildings ...

On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya city of Chichén Itzá, in the sparse shade of a tropical tree, a voice ricochets wildly up the mouth of a well. “¡Lo vi! ¡Lo vi!” the ...

An angry mob almost lynched a tourist who climbed without permission the steps of the Castillo de Kukulcán, one of the new seven wonders of the modern world located in the archaeological zone of ...

The Chichen Itza complex, where the historical site is located, becomes an extremely popular travel destination for both ...

Each bore ceremonial centers where theocratic rulers practiced a complex religion based on a host of gods, a unique calendar, and ceremonies that featured a ball game and human sacrifice.