Palenque is a Maya city in southern Mexico that dates back to the 8th century. Sunlight fills its aptly-named Temple of the Sun on the date of the equinoxes, projecting a narrow shaft of light on ...

Built by the ancient Inca, the labyrinth – or Chincana – radiates outwards from the Temple of the Sun, extending for more than a mile towards a fortress on the edge of the city. The discovery ...

Flores said the team found an underground passage connecting two of Cusco’s key Inca monuments: the Temple of the Sun—which conquistadors ruined and covered with a Catholic church in the 16th ...