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

At Chichén Itzá, the great Maya city on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, the largest pyramid stages an astronomical spectacle twice a year. Around the spring and autumn equinoxes, the late-afternoon sun ...

Chichen Itza, near Valladolid in Mexico’s Yucatán, is a former Maya city where pyramids, palaces and observatories turn astronomy into architecture and ritual.

MEXICO CITY – It was an archaeological adventure: a 12-day family trip to Mayan and Aztec pyramid cities, from Mexico City to the Yucatan jungle. Our timeline spanned from the ancient city of ...