JohannesMayr
Chichén Itzá / Kukulcán
The pyramid is 30 m high, has a base edge length of 55 m and rises in nine pyramid steps. The stairways on all four sides include 365 steps. This number is made up as follows: Three flights of stairs have 91 steps and the northern flight of stairs has 92, resulting in 365. This calculation, which is supposed to refer to the days of the year, was already considered pure speculation by older authors.[1] In fact, the number of steps is the result of the restoration campaigns - the north and west sides were restored by the Mexican Dirección de Antropología (from 1923 under José Reygadas Vértiz), the east side by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (1979 under Peter J. Schmidt) ; the south side remained unrestored. The number of steps reached in this way varies between 91 and 93, if only because the terrain slopes slightly to the south.
Chichén Itzá / Kukulcán
The pyramid is 30 m high, has a base edge length of 55 m and rises in nine pyramid steps. The stairways on all four sides include 365 steps. This number is made up as follows: Three flights of stairs have 91 steps and the northern flight of stairs has 92, resulting in 365. This calculation, which is supposed to refer to the days of the year, was already considered pure speculation by older authors.[1] In fact, the number of steps is the result of the restoration campaigns - the north and west sides were restored by the Mexican Dirección de Antropología (from 1923 under José Reygadas Vértiz), the east side by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (1979 under Peter J. Schmidt) ; the south side remained unrestored. The number of steps reached in this way varies between 91 and 93, if only because the terrain slopes slightly to the south.