as well as the Great Compound with the Temple of Quetzalcoatl (also known as Temple of the Plumed Serpent) stand out. One characteristic of the city’s civil and religious architecture is the ...

The Great Pyramid of Cholula is the largest pyramid in the world by volume, but for centuries, it went unnoticed, hidden in ...

The museum also houses two 15th-century deerskin codices detailing the political and religious histories of the Mixtec people, a sculpture of the plumed serpent deity Quetzalcóatl and a carved stone ...

The serpent and the rope are standard metaphors in Indic thought, used to connote the unreal and the real in creation. These metaphors have been used from vedic times to the present day.

Despite the chance of rain in the forecast, colorful plumed hats are again a fashion staple at Churchill Downs for the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky. The tradition of ...

A University of Arizona researcher has escaped from the grasp of the Baga Serpent, at least for now. An appeals court in New York has dismissed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against UA radiocarbon ...

An S-shaped symbol known as "xonecuilli" is associated with the planet Venus and the measurement of time, while the profile of a human-like figure may represent the creator god Quetzalcoatl.

Black smoke rose out of the Sistine Chapel early Thursday, signaling a failure to elect a new pope, before white smoke plumed out just hours later. A new pope has finally been selected ...

Hayley looked just like her mom at Cannes, also wearing diamond statement earrings, but opting for a custom tulle shawl instead of the plumed accessory. Both women looked their best with dewy ...

The daunting treks led to a book on Mesoamerican myth, Legends of the Plumed Serpent. Those two disparate worlds somehow collided unexpectedly on a recent afternoon in the hushed, temperature ...