This article was featured in Loco Gringo. Twice a year, at each equinox, the sun plays with the angles of the northeast stairway of the Kukulcán pyramid at Chichen Itza (called El Castillo in Spanish). The north stairway of the Kukulcán pyramid is the...
This article was featured in Popular Archaeology. A s holy lord of the B’aakal kingdom, Pakal was supreme in secular and religious matters, superseding the high priest and priestess, for the prefix K’inich means Lord, while Ahaw connotes Holy. The Maya...
Chichén Itza's Shadow Kukulcán Temple-Pyramid

Chichén Itza’s Shadow

What we see is not always what we think it is nor expect, whether nature or man-made. It is often true with archaeological remains, when new discoveries on the same site shed unexpected light on new finds, leaving question...
the sight of a man dancing on a tiny round platform atop of a hundred foot-high wooden pole while playing a flute and a small drum is baffling, and strikes fear in the heart of his loved ones and...

The Olmec World

What we know about the Olmecs is shadowed by what we do not, most notably their origin and their name. The riddle further deepens when we look at their art, which still puzzles researchers, among which are seventeen massive...
This article was featured in Travel Thru History and Ancient Origins. The celebrated Mexican national holyday, Dia de Muertos (its original name in Spanish), or Day of the Dead, means one thing for city dwellers and quite another for country...
This article was featured in Popular Archaeology. It was dark, for there was no Sun when the gods met. They said, “who will bring the Sun?” For, after the fall of the Fourth Sun, “all was darkness, there was no...
What strikes a visitor to the Riviera Maya, is an exuberance of light and colors, among the most beautiful beaches anywhere. Tulum is well known to the tourists flocking to the Riviera Maya year round. The Caribbean coast of...
This article was featured in Travel Thru History and Ancient Origins. Caves are central to world cultures’ cosmologies, used by humans from the dawn of time. They are places where benevolent and malevolent deities, protectors and disruptors of communities and...
Labna is a mid-size elite and ceremonial city in West-central Yucatán, with a multi-level palace connected to a pyramid-temple and the ancient city landmark, the Arch, also called the “Portal”, is the site landmark. The city’s name translates as...
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