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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“Meanwhile, American students are learning somewhat less lofty things.”
Indeed, like learning how to put a rubber on a banana.
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
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.
wow!
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.
Me too... When I see deleted posts, I hope someone has cut and pasted it to respond, because I’m curious! LOL!
Hmm....
Heard Hillary will open up the UFO files. You might find your answer there..
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.
Erich Von Daniken probably wrote it.
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.
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.
How do you know this? Was it in a different news story? Somewhere else?
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The Daily Mail story is a bit better.
COOL; hope the kid gets to go some day.
very cool. Amateur astronomers have made some super discoveries.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Space/story?id=8221167&page=1
The kid’s goin’ to prison for profiling !
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