Rising through a clearing in the jungle of the Yucatán, a monumental Maya pyramid appears to touch the sky in Catherwood’s illustration of the Pyramid of Kulkulcán. Although parts of the structure are ...

El Castillo (The Castle), a 98-foot-tall pyramid, dominates the city ... (The temple also contained a smashed codex or Maya book, whose paper had disintegrated but whose painted stucco surface ...