Chichén Itzá, Mexico — At the spring and fall equinoxes, the setting sun casts serpent-like shadows along the northern stairs of El Castillo, or “the castle.” Built more than a thousand years ago by ...

Archaeologists exploring a cave system near the center of the Maya city of Chichen Itza unexpectedly came upon several chambers filled with ritual objects. This discovery supports the theory that when ...

Deep dish pizza is synonymous with Chicago. A bread-like base topped with layers of mozzarella and chunky tomato sauce is the perfect fortification, some might argue, against the notoriously long and ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

An international research team is preparing to peer inside one of the Maya civilization's most iconic structures using cutting-edge technology borrowed from particle physics. The team will deploy ...

A carved stone marker was recently found near an entrance to the Casa Colorada building complex in the ancient city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. The carving depicts two men playing ...