36 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE May | June 2018
THE OBSERVATORY Evidence of Mayan interest
in the heavens can be seen in monumental
architecture like El Caracol at Chichen Itza.
Scholars of archaeoastronomy believe that this
snail-like building was designed to facilitate
viewing astronomical phenomena such as the
rising of the Sun and the setting of Venus.MAYA METEORS by James Romero