[Captain Beyond]

Hopefully they will find more of the murals intact to see whatever kind of story about this Mayan king can be deciphered and hopeuflly it want be a PC college grad doing it.

[SunkenCiv]

Ever since the writing system was cracked in the 1980s, the archaeology has taken off in Central America. There’s more funding from the local gov’ts and from US colleges and universities, ditto for Europeans. There were litanies of site destruction in the previous decades, but there is literally too much to dig now, thanks to the funding and of course remote sensing. The prevalence of large sites wasn’t understood, mainly because they didn’t all have those really tall structures to spot.