In just a few years, he dredged the Sacred Cenote with cranes and removed hundreds of bones and gold and jade objects that were sent to the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, where many of them ...

What de Anda has been waiting anxiously for his friend Montero to determine is whether the water at the bottom of this nondescript natural well, or cenote, had acted as a sacred sundial and ...

The Sacred Cenote is located in southeast Mexico and is one of several water-filled sinkholes found in the ancient city of Chichen-Itza. Found in the Yucatán Peninsula, this natural cave is a 60 ...

where experts like Helena Barba Meinecke and Guillermo de Anda will share their findings on the Sacred Cenote and the Great Mayan Aquifer. Tourism in Chichén Itzá is at a key point, with growing ...

As thousands of tourists flocked to Chichén Itzá for the spring equinox, two were arrested, one for climbing the iconic ...

This sacred site was one of the greatest Mayan centres of the ... The fusion of Mayan construction techniques with new elements from central Mexico make Chichen-Itza one of the most important examples ...

The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has prohibited climbing the sacred Mayan building since 2008, installing a security cordon around it and announced fines ranging from ...

Considered sacred waters by the Mayans ... are the only accepted form of payment and there is no ATM on site. Chichen Itza, Cenote, and Valladolid Tour (21088 reviews) ...