What happened over the next 300 years remains up for debate, but by 1860 French explorer Désiré Charnay surveyed Chichén Itzá and took numerous photographs that he published in Cités et ruines américaines, published in 1863.
Ring warsa 1860, Désiré Charnay ngelaksanayang survei ring ChiChén Itza miwah akéh ngambil foto sané kamedalang ring Cités et ruines americaine (1863).