Photo by simonnorfolkstudio / Chichen Itzá was a large pre-Columbian Maya city in Yucatán State, Mexico, and a Maya focal point for over 500 years. The city may have had the most diverse population in the Maya world. The presence of central Mexico architectural styles at the site was once thought to have been representative of direct migration or even conquest from central Mexico, but more recent interpretations view the presence of these non-Maya styles more as the result of cultural diffusion. El Castillo, also called the Temple of Chac-Mool or the Temple of Kukulcán, is 25 meters (82ft) high and a type of Maya calendar in stone: at the spring and autumn equinox, the shadow of a "serpent" crawls down the balustrade. Follow me simonnorfolkstudio for updates, outtakes, unpublished and archive material. #mexico #mayaworld #yucatan #history #heritage simonnorfolkstudio