Unraveling the mysteries of the Maya. (includes travel tips)

Sunset | November 1, 1994| | Copyright

Recent excavations and insights into the language of the Maya give visitors to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula a fresh look at an ancient civilization

In Yucatan, there is a story told about Chichen Itza's Temple of Kukulcan. Each year at the spring and autumn equinoxes, hundreds of visitors gather to witness twin serpents slithering down the temple's north face. Not long ago, as the story has it, one American tourist was seen clutching a snakebite kit, prepared in case the reptiles escaped into the crowd. No one had told her that the snakes are, in fact, a twice-yearly ...

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