A tourist in Mexico is facing charges after he climbed stairs of one of the New Seven Wonders of the World before furious locals took justice into their own hands by beating the man. Bystander footage ...

A tourist has been branded an idiot after he climbed an ancient pyramid, before he was then beaten up by an angry crowd for defying the ban. Teresa Arroyo, who was visiting the archaeological site ...

Temple of Kukulcan and the stairs with the Heads of the feathered serpents at the base of the stairways at Chichen Itza. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video ...

The grim discovery was made after ancient human remains found in the ancient city of Chichen Itza were analysed using state of the art technology by an international team of scientists. The findings, ...

An in-depth genetic investigation of the ritualistically interred children’s remains in Chichén Itzá’s chultún, or water cistern, revealed that all 64 children that had gone to their watery demise in ...

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Today, the ruined city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico is a major tourist attraction, drawing around two million people from around the world each year. Chichén Itzá's stunning ancient buildings – including ...

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 ...

Genetic clues have unveiled a type of ritual child sacrifice at an ancient Maya site that consisted only of young boys, often chosen as closely related pairs that included twins. The discovery stems ...