Posts Tagged Chichen Itza

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Chichen Itza ruins lie on the city of gods that was declared Humanity Cultural Heritage in 1988 and in 2007 [...]

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Discover Chichen Itza!. This map will help you understand the archaeological layout and you can easily locate any place.

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Because Chichen Itza is one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Because Chichen Itza has been declared as a World Heritage Site, by UNESCO.
Because Chichen Itza architecture is so well studied and measured that it experiences an unusual phenomenon every year, during the spring equinox. The sunrays falling in the pyramid create a shadow down [...]

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Some anthropologists that have studied the presence of a remarkably thick blue layer found at the beginning of the 20th century at the bottom of the Sacred Well at Chichen Itza, say that  this blue was the color of sacrifice for the ancient Maya.
They used this pigment to paint human beings blue before they were [...]

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