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Star pupil finds lost Mayan city by studying ancient charts of the night sky from his bedroom
UK Telegraph ^ | 10 May 16 | Telegraph Reporters

Posted on 05/10/2016 6:51:59 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion

(Title was shortened. Add: "of the night sky from his bedroom ")

A Canadian schoolboy appears to have discovered a lost Mayan city hidden deep in the jungles of Mexico using a new method of matching stars to the location of temples on earth.

William Gadoury, 15, was fascinated by the ancient Central American civilization and spent hours poring over diagrams of constellations and maps of known Mayan cities.

And then he made a startling realisation: the two appeared to be linked.

“I was really surprised and excited when I realised that the most brilliant stars of the constellations matched the largest Maya cities,” he told the Journal de Montréal.

In hundreds of years of scholarship, no other scientist had ever found such a correlation.

Studying 22 different constellations, William found that they matched the location of 117 Mayan cities scattered throughout Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: archaeoastronomy; godsgravesglyphs; maya; mayan; mayans; mayas; stars; williamgadoury
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To: DesertRhino

“Meanwhile, American students are learning somewhat less lofty things.”

Indeed, like learning how to put a rubber on a banana.


61 posted on 05/10/2016 8:49:52 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Buttons12

I believe it was mentioned on the cool Saturday weird-stuff shows, In Search Of...hosted by Nimoy, and Sightings, which later became the Jeff Rense site.

It’s just always been around, as far as I remember.

I have a *lot* of OOP treasures on archaeo-astronomy and megalithic alignments.

Orion and the Pleiades are the two most mentioned constellations.

Wiki says 1989 but I’m fairly certain I did not dream it up myself, prior to that.

:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correlation_theory


62 posted on 05/10/2016 8:50:48 PM PDT by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: Buttons12

I hope you’re catching the new show on the Science channel called “What On Earth?”

Scads of new stuff being found, via satellite photos.

Most tragic are the photos of former archaeological treasures, now reduced to rubble by the muzzies.


63 posted on 05/10/2016 8:54:26 PM PDT by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

wow!


64 posted on 05/10/2016 9:01:01 PM PDT by blueplum (March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?)
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To: onedoug

No, we’re talking about canabalism now and not their violence against the living.

I’ve never been in that survival situation, so I can’t say what I’d do, but I think I’d do it after praying about it.


65 posted on 05/10/2016 9:25:39 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: BipolarBob

Me too... When I see deleted posts, I hope someone has cut and pasted it to respond, because I’m curious! LOL!


66 posted on 05/10/2016 9:27:06 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Hmm....


67 posted on 05/10/2016 9:29:42 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: USNBandit
LOL! Mapping the heavens just isn't quite inclusive enough. 😉
68 posted on 05/10/2016 9:31:50 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: raybbr

Heard Hillary will open up the UFO files. You might find your answer there..


69 posted on 05/10/2016 9:34:00 PM PDT by Tamatoa (Fight for our America, Fight for our Country I fought to defend!!!)
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You can calculate the latitude with absolute precision if you know the date it was built based on the earths precession. Longitude in this context is meaningless.


70 posted on 05/10/2016 9:51:57 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Buttons12

Erich Von Daniken probably wrote it.


71 posted on 05/10/2016 9:55:34 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus headsConservatus)
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To: firebrand

You’re missing the idea I think.

The stars, in relation to each other form a certain shape. The cities, in relation to the other cities, form the same shape. They aren’t laid out in any particular spot that has any relation to the stars, they are just laid out in relation to each other, to form a pattern that matches the stars.


72 posted on 05/10/2016 10:08:34 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: scrabblehack

Yes, but anybody with a computer can run a little program to calculate the positions of the stars for any time in history and it will show you what the constellations looked like. I had a program that would do that back in the 80s, so nowadays there is probably a free app for it.


73 posted on 05/10/2016 10:11:32 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

How do you know this? Was it in a different news story? Somewhere else?


74 posted on 05/10/2016 10:11:53 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: nutmeg

Bookmark


75 posted on 05/10/2016 10:12:38 PM PDT by nutmeg (Hillary's Lies Matter)
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To: Boogieman

The Daily Mail story is a bit better.


76 posted on 05/10/2016 10:25:35 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

COOL; hope the kid gets to go some day.


77 posted on 05/10/2016 10:31:09 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
The young man's discovery is marked La Bouche de feu, Fire Mouth


78 posted on 05/10/2016 10:52:53 PM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

very cool. Amateur astronomers have made some super discoveries.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Space/story?id=8221167&page=1


79 posted on 05/10/2016 10:56:27 PM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

The kid’s goin’ to prison for profiling !


80 posted on 05/10/2016 10:59:02 PM PDT by knarf (Jack Ruby ... pick up the red phone)
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