History doesn’t have to be a dusty museum or a long list of dates, it can be a thrilling adventure that families actually ...

Inhabitants of the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá are well-known for their practice of ritual human sacrifice. The most prevalent notion in the popular imagination is that of young Maya women being ...

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 ...

El Castillo, also known as the Temple of Kukulcan, is among the largest structures at Chichén Itzá and its architecture reflects its far-flung political connections. Located in the heart of Mexico’s ...

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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 ...