Why were they here?

Why were they all male?

Why were so many of them related to each other?

And what does the presence of identical twins, in a culture that invested deep symbolic significance in the concept of twinhood, mean for understanding the rituals that brought them to this underground chamber?

The City and the Underground

Chichén Itzá is a large and complex archaeological site, covering approximately five square kilometers of studied area within a broader settlement landscape that extended considerably farther.

The city’s most prominent period of development and influence is generally associated with the Terminal Classic era, roughly from 800 to 1000 CE, though occupation of the area extended both earlier and later.