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 Light Beam Photo: Message from Gods, or iPhone Glitch? News. By Natalie Wolchover published 27 February 2012 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A 1,600 year old temple believed to be dedicated to the sun god of the ancient Mayan people has been found in El Zotz, Guatemala. The Temple of the Night Sun dates back to between 350 and 400 AD.

Newman started her study of the Mayan concepts of sharks after analyzing a cache of sacred objects, including 47 teeth from a requiem shark (a family that includes spinner and blacktip sharks ...

The Wall Street Journal. English Edition. ... Photo: Museo Amparo Collection. ... “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Nov. 21, ...

Because of this, the ancient Maya carved and painted many images of K’awiil. Scribes wrote about him as a kind of energy – as a god with “many faces,” or even as part of a triad similar to ...

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 the ...