Kukulcán Pyramid

Its steps add up to the days in a year

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The pyramid’s four stairways each have 91 steps; with the temple platform at the top, they add up to 365. At the equinoxes, sunlight casts a shifting triangular shadow along the northern staircase, creating the appearance of a serpent descending the structure.

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