The summer solstice occurs when the earth’s tilt towards the sun is at a maximum, hence the long hours of daylight. It is also when the sun appears at its highest elevation in the sky. Daytime, the ...

The "Pyramid of the Moon" in Teotihuacan, an ancient city in Mexico, may align with the solstice sun, a team argues. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Every evening the sun god, Kinich Ahau, made the perilous journey through Xibalba, the Maya underworld, to be born anew at sunrise. Solar eclipses were seen as a "broken sun " — a sign of ...

Summer officially began Friday in the Northern Hemisphere with the longest daylight of the year at around 15 hours.

Maya Sun God Masks. Top 10 Discoveries of 2012 January/February 2013. ... Dating to between A.D. 350 and 400, the five-foot-tall masks decorated a temple atop El Diablo pyramid, ...

Archaeologists working in a tunnel beneath Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun have unearthed two caches of artifacts that may have been meant to consecrate the massive building's construction around ...

Every evening the sun god, Kinich Ahau, made the perilous journey through Xibalba, the Maya underworld, to be born anew at sunrise. Solar eclipses were seen as a “broken sun ” – a sign of ...

Under a blazing sun Saturday, Tsai and Guatemalan Foreign Minister Mario Búcaro, representing Giammattei ... Presidents of Taiwan, Guatemala visit Mayan pyramid. Moises Castillo/AP.

For instance, at the Mayan pyramid of Chichén Itzá in Mexico, the setting sun casts a shadow that resembles a serpent slithering down the pyramid’s steps—an event that drew crowds even in ...

Other ancient structures are oriented towards the sun too, like the Mayan pyramid Kukulkan at Chichen Itza and Peru’s Machu Picchu, according to the American Association for the Advancement of ...