Ancient Mayans Likely Had Fountains and Toilets

LiveScience ^ | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 | Charles Q. Choi

[SunkenCiv]

The ancient Mayans may have had enough engineering know-how to master running water, creating fountains and even toilets by controlling water pressure, scientists now suggest... Scientists investigated the Mayan center at Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico. At its height, this major site, inhabited from roughly 100 to 800 AD, had some 1,500 structures -- residences, palaces, and temples -- holding some 6,000 inhabitants under a series of powerful rulers. The center at Palenque also had what was arguably the most unique and intricate system of water management known anywhere in the Maya lowlands. These involved elaborate subterranean aqueducts to deal with the spring-fed streams that naturally divide the landscape and could otherwise cause flooding or erosion... One peculiar finding at Palenque was a buried, spring-fed conduit some 216 feet long (66 m). While other aqueducts under the site's main plaza stayed relatively level and maintained a roughly constant width, the rectangular conduit was located on a steep slope and abruptly narrowed at its end. Assuming this sloping conduit was smoothly plastered as the aqueducts were at Palenque, the researchers calculated the resulting water pressure could drive a fountain shooting water roughly 20 feet high (6 m)... Running water would have been a luxury, not a necessity. "I actually think that the creation of water pressure at Palenque was a sign of wealth," French said.

[BunnySlippers]

The toilets in Mexico STILL do not work!

[yarddog]

The Minoans on Crete had real, not imaginary flush toilets several thousand years before.

[JoeProBono]

Maya Basket for Toilet Paper

[ApplegateRanch]

Is this where evil white men got the idea for gold plumbing? Since they didn’t have any kind of decent utilitarian metalurgy; and since stone and clay will only take you so far. are they suggesting...?

[aruanan]

Ancient Mayans Likely Had Fountains and Toilets

So did they put one and the other together and get a New World bidet?

[Bernard Marx]

If the Mayans were so friggin’ brilliant, why can’t you find them anymore?

Have you traveled to the Maya Mountains in Belize? Or ventured over the borders into Guatemala and Mexico? If you're so friggin' brilliant you'd know there are tens of thousands of Mayans still living peacefully in those and other areas. They had the brains to escape the corrupt rulers of the old city-states and let them rot. Unfortunately, in our time and country we haven't reached the same state of enlightenment.

[ApplegateRanch]

Between Native Americans, Sub-Sharan Africans, ancient Indians, Muslims, and Russian Communists, Western white men seemingly didn’t invent nor discover, nor build, nor write anything original.

Don’t believe me; just ask any Russian Communist, Arab, Muslim, Aztláner, fundamentalist Hindu, African-American, or Democrat.

[Psalm 144]

You can. It is a much reduced but living culture.

[Psalm 144]

Between Native Americans, Sub-Sharan Africans, ancient Indians, Muslims, and Russian Communists, Western white men seemingly didn’t invent nor discover, nor build, nor write anything original.

Don’t believe me; just ask any Russian Communist, Arab, Muslim, Aztláner, fundamentalist Hindu, African-American, or Democrat.

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We invented the cool stuff though. Cavalry, horse archery, chain mail, legions, the pilum, the Danish axe, the longbow, the machine gun, the sub machine gun, barbed wire, mustard gas, internal combustion engines, aeroplanes, tanks, destroyers, dreadnoughts, submarines and spiked helmets to list off just a few things.

We kick ass. Thats what we do.

[ApplegateRanch]

...the sub machine gun ...spiked helmets....

And motorcycles with sidecars, to ride wearing said helmets, and firing said submachine guns.

Yeeeee-HAW!

[Lando Lincoln]

FWIW... I have traveled the remnants of ancient Rome, Egypt, Greece and Central America. But nothing - and I mean nothing - prepared me for the Inca ruins in Peru. I will forever be in awe.

[Fred Nerks]

CONDUCTING WATER

PART I System Maps - Phoenix/ Lambayeque/ Chicama/ Earthen canals - Pueblogrande/ Taymi/ Apurlec/ Ascope / Pacherrez /Huari Rock-cut canal - Cumbemayo Lined canals - Intervalley/ Raqchi/ Yucay/ Tipon PART II Fossilized canals – Tehuacan/ Moctezuma Aqueducts - Ascope/ Intervalley/ Piquillakta / Tipon Tunnels - Ibarra/ Mira Related structures: Spills – Ascope/ Intervalley Erosion protection - Intervalley Secondary canal – Intervalley Field canals – Chan Chan

[aruanan]

Don’t believe me; just ask any Russian Communist, Arab, Muslim, Aztláner, fundamentalist Hindu, African-American, or Democrat.

Tribalists always resent Western technological society all the while they greedily suck its teats.

[litehaus]

"scientists now suggest"

Previously confirmed:

1,Flat Earth

2.Global Cooling

3.Earth Center of Universe

Etc Etc Etc

[left that other site]

Take heart my FRiend!

It will be forever enshrined in the annals of HISTORY (due to its nomenclature) that the FLUSH toilet mechanism known as a ballcock (I kid you NOT!) was invented in London, by a White European Male named THOMAS CRAPPER.

REAL History is so much more FUN than phony, PC stuff, dontcha know! LOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

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Thanks for the btt!
Merry Christmas!

[seemoAR]

I wonder if any proof exist as to who built the toilets and fountains. Illegal aliens and other miscreants are trying to take over the once free USA. If they succeed, the history will be rewrote and they will take credit for all the good things in this Country.

[Radix]

That is why they call it HIS STORY!

[seemoAR]

The victors write his story. :0)