The New Wonder of the World and the finest surviving Maya urban complex, Chichen Itza's El Castillo pyramid, Great Ball Court, Tzompantli skull platform, and Sacred Cenote form a coherent ritual landscape spanning a 400-year period of Maya and Toltec cultural fusion. The equinox serpent shadow effect β when 91 steps on each face of El Castillo create a shadow that appears as a descending feathered serpent β is the most precisely engineered astronomical spectacle in the Americas.
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