At the autumn and spring equinoxes, the shadow of the pyramid is cast onto the balustrade of one of the staircases, giving the impression of a serpentine body that links to the carved snake-head ...

Perhaps the most striking similarities are found at the Platform of the Eagles and Jaguars at Chichen Itza, which bears a ...

奇琴伊察（Chichén Itzá）重建的石制头骨架（tzompantli）的一部分。图片来源：Johannes Krause 该遗址中的大部分牺牲者是儿童和青少年。尽管人们普遍 ...

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The circular stone was found at the Chichen Itza archaeological site and is thought ... to be his opponent - wears what is known as a "snake turban". The man with the snakes slithering around ...

The Maya city of Chichén Itzá, declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1988, has been under archaeological exploration since 1993. Several major archaeological investigations have been conducted, ...

It was already known that at the spring equinox a snake of sunlight slithers down one side of the pyramid’s central staircase—a sight witnessed every year by thousands of tourists. Some walk ...

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In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America. Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended ...