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Lost Mayan City Discovered Under Guatemala Jungle
Time via AP via Yahoonews ^
| 03 Feb 2018
| staff
Posted on 02/06/2018 9:53:26 PM PST by blueplum
(GUATEMALA CITY) — Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defense works and pyramids in the dense jungle of Guatemala’s Peten region, suggesting that millions more people lived there than previously thought.
The discoveries, which included industrial-sized agricultural fields and irrigation canals, were announced Thursday by an alliance of U.S., European and Guatemalan archaeologists working with Guatemala’s Mayan Heritage and Nature Foundation.
The study estimates that roughly 10 million people may have....
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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: ancientculture; godsgravesglyphs; guatamala; guatemala; junglelife; maya; mayans; mayas
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Question for the learned scholars of FR - why would a population of 10 million need 'extensive defensive fences" "ramparts" and "citidels"? Who were they wanting to defend themselves from?
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posted on
02/06/2018 9:53:27 PM PST
by
blueplum
To: blueplum
To: blueplum
There are un-excavated ruins all over Central America. You can climb to the top of excavated ruins/temples, look over the rain forest, and see areas where the vegetation suggests there is something underneath.
To: blueplum
Where the hell did everyone go?
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:09:58 PM PST
by
Nachoman
(Following victory, its best to reload.)
To: Nachoman
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:11:53 PM PST
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.cwom/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M5)
To: Vendome
They went out for a pack of cigarettes...
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:12:22 PM PST
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Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.cwom/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M5)
To: Vendome
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:20:47 PM PST
by
Noumenon
(It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
To: Nachoman
“Where the hell did everyone go?”
They went over the US border to vote Democrat.
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:21:23 PM PST
by
howlinhound
(Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
To: Nachoman
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:21:39 PM PST
by
umgud
To: blueplum
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:30:59 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
To: blueplum
Question for the learned scholars of FR - why would a population of 10 million need 'extensive defensive fences" "ramparts" and "citidels"? Who were they wanting to defend themselves from? Illegal immigrants from Mexico, of course. An early version of 'The Wall'.
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:33:29 PM PST
by
eldoradude
(Keep calm...we'll get to the carrion part later.)
To: blueplum
From each other. If they were like other Mayans they were split into rival city states.
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:36:14 PM PST
by
Hugin
(Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud..)
To: Nachoman
Where the hell did everyone go?
California.
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:47:44 PM PST
by
vannrox
(The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
To: blueplum
Amazing! We toured Ostia Antica just outside Rome. Another lost city d3stroyed by volcano, ash.
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:22:03 PM PST
by
buffyt
(I am the way the truth the light, no one comes to the Father except by ME. Jesus said...)
To: Telepathic Intruder
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:27:22 PM PST
by
Bratch
("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
To: blueplum
How many more “lost” cities are their?
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:32:48 PM PST
by
Reno89519
(Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
To: blueplum
From the Indian invaders (now called our Mexican invaders). At they had defenses.
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:34:25 PM PST
by
Reno89519
(Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
To: blueplum
From the Indian invaders (now called our Mexican invaders). At they had defenses.
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:34:26 PM PST
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Reno89519
(Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
To: blueplum
They misplaced their GPS.
That’s how the city got lost.
;-P
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:47:06 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: blueplum
Current Guatemala population totals 16 million
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:56:34 PM PST
by
Southack
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