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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So how did he correlate the ruins with constellations? How does that give him a place to look?
Thanks. I thought somebody had a problem with astronomy.
My question was just about the Mayan cities, but you rightly ask about the other cities around the world, also.
“I’m not saying it’s aliens . . . “
There are other articles out there that are more in-depth.
Just how are all those cities laid out according to the stars. The stars are pretty far away to be casting light beams on particular spots.
WOW
You just failed geography and/or reading comprehension.
No, Jaguars. They wouldn't be caught dead in an Aztec.
Kush
I got a laugh today reading test papers from young pupils, all laboriously written in block style writing. One test paper asked, “if you were marooned on an island, would you prefer to be alone or marooned with someone you hated”. One enterprising youngster had written, “with someone I hated because I would need something to eat”.
I’m gonna’ avoid deserted islands if this kid is in the tour group.
Wild. Just stunning.
Wild. Just stunning.
Actually, they used LORAN :-)
Smart kid.
I had posted a picture of the area the kid searched and a picture of the constellation - from the website link.
Must not be allowed?
Probably got a B- on his science project for a lack of LGBTQUnk context....
Total agree. The Spanish were horrified when they saw what they were about. The Conquistadors arriving was about like the allies rolling into the Nazi death camps.
I had to look it up on amazon...
Graham Hancock wrote Heaven’s Mill (among other works), in which he proposed that the ancients practiced a “ground-sky dualism” — and that the monuments at Giza and various other ancient cities were laid out according to star patterns from around 12,000 years ago.
Who wrote about it in the ‘70s, do you recall?
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