maya history

Chichen Itza

Chichen Itza was a pyramid built by the Mayas and was named after one of their supreme Gods Kukuclan, also known as Quetzalcoat. It is 90 feet tall and was built for astromical and religious purposes. Each side of the pyramid has two sets of stairs, each set having 91 steps including the one at the …

The Maya Bridge

On the River Usmacinta in the jungle about eight miles from Bonampak in Mexico, theres a Mayan ruin called Yaxchilan. Archaeologists have studied it for over a century. In 1989, James O’Kon, a civil engineer, noticed a mysterious mound of rocks which he thought was a part of a bridge. In order to prove his …