Chichen Itza has gotten a bit of a bad reputation lately. After all, it does get throngs of tourists every day. Local people have obviously caught onto this. So they line the walking paths selling ...

Mexican experts said Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 they have discovered what may be the original structure at the pyramid of Kukulkan at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza. (AP Photo/Israel Leal, File) ...

The Maya civilization suffered multiple severe droughts in the final centuries of their society, including one that lasted 13 ...

Chichen Itza is a U.N. World Heritage site and Mexico's most-visited archaeological site, with about 2.5 million visitors each year.

Criterion (iii): Chichen-Itza is the most important archaeological vestige of the Maya-Toltec civilization in Yucatan (10th-15th centuries). Integrity From its abandonment during the 15th century, ...

12.19.19.3.2; 10 Kayab 5 Ik; 297 days left . . . I’ve heard a lot of bad excuses from hotel receptionists, but up until now, nobody’s ever tried blaming weak Internet on a UNESCO World ...

Like Chichen Itza, Dzibilchaltún’s design was inspired by the planets and stars. On the spring and fall equinoxes, the sun falls in a perfect line down the sacbe.

You can take the ADO bus to Chichen Itza from Playa del Carmen; it departs around 8:15 a.m. from the ADO station on 5th Avenue, but the ride will often take more than 3.5 hours due to the many ...

Chichén Itzá, the Maya complex that’s now one of Mexico’s most popular tourist destinations, is getting a new museum, reports the Art Newspaper’s Elizabeth Mistry. The new facility will ...

Bodies at the ancient Mexican city of Chichen Itza belonged to young boys, reveals a gruesome new study by experts at the Max-Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany.