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 ...
But I’ll bet he’s not the first to see it...or find that city. Some things you keep to yourself.
Correct on Graham Hancock
Cities are laid out topographically...strategically along travel routes. But you have to work with what you have. You need food, shelter and clothing.....and water, water, water....
See my post #19. The young lad was working from a certain hypothesis.
The only thing soebarkah has taught me is that he is an enemy islamist pig-dog.
They were using the Hubble. It was called “The Rubble” back in those days...
Betcha 1000 to 1, plenty of people have ransacked the site.
He’ll come out as transgender for the AAA+...
LOL! They was ahead of their time. :)
The story doesn’t explain everything. Was it the place where the star passed over at midnight? On a certain day of the year? That changes with time, though. Need the New York Times for this kind of stuff, about the only thing they’re good for.
While other Canadian kids were thinking about becoming president...of the USA
Wasn’t it the last, great Rodney Dangerfield who once said “The definition of trust is two cannibals having oral sex”.
Bkmk
I'm a little surprised than an expedition is not already being planned. If the place is THAT remote, it makes you wonder about who might (still) be living there.
An abominable thing.
Also, over time the stars have changed position, even relative to each other. Polaris was not the North Star 2000+ years ago. I’ll have to check it to see if it makes a difference.
I don't know if that is universally true. For example, suppose you are in the Donner party. Your fellow members die of cold. You are starving.
I think I'm OK with that. "They" are long gone. Only the body remains. Life or death.
Google Maps?
SO you would compare what these savages did with that?
Though God help me that I wouldn’t do it.
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