The Mayan Temple of Kukulcán was honored by UNESCO in 2007. ZUMAPRESS.com Built sometime between the 8th and 12th centuries CE, the temple is dedicated to Kukulcán, the feathered serpent deity.

The Temple of Kukulkan, the Mayan snake god, has been built on top of a natural sinkhole that is 114 feet long and is up to 65 feet deep. It is capped by 13 feet of limestone that is being washed ...

The1,600-year-old faces of the Maya sun god emerged from the ground in Guatemala. Dubbed the Temple of the Night Sun, the newly discovered temple depicts the sun god as a shark, blood-drinker, and ...

When Hector Siliezar visited the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza with his wife and kids in 2009, he snapped three iPhone photos of El Castillo, a pyramid that once served as a sacred temple to ...

Mayan ruins in Belize Photo: Fotolia/AP I was lucky enough to be in the Mundo Maya for the vernal equinox, when the temples become clocks and astrological devices.

Kukulkan’s name directly translates from Yucatec Maya, the Mayan language. In Maya, Kukulkan means “feathered serpent god,” and this god is depicted as such.

It is Temple IV, which soars over the jungle canopy to 212 feet, the tallest structure in the Mayan world. The temple of the double-headed serpent sits at the top.

(NEWSER) – When researchers grew concerned about underground anomalies detected near the Mayan ruins of Palenque in Mexico, they began a dig to figure out whether the pyramid was in danger of ...