Circular temple dedicated to Maya serpent deity discovered in Mexico
The recently discovered temple in Mexico's Yucatán peninsula dates between A.D. 1000 and 1200.
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The recently discovered temple in Mexico's Yucatán peninsula dates between A.D. 1000 and 1200.
Investigators of the El Tigre Maya city in Campeche, Mexico have just revealed a previously unknown structure with ties to the deity Kukulcán.
The carved stone disc, discovered by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, displays hieroglyphic writing surrounding two players standing next to a ball.
Archaeologists in Mexico were excavating a new area at Chichen Itza when they discovered the first evidence of an elite residential complex at Chichen Viejo.
The Maya were a powerful pre-Columbian civilization who thrived between AD 600 – AD 800. They were literate, had a complex language including pictograms, glyphs, and phonetic representations. They even produced books called codices, some of which were reported to detail 800 years of their history.