Ancient wooden Mayan canoe unearthed almost intact in Mexico

bbc ^

[BenLurkin]

Measuring over 5ft (1.6m), it was found almost completely intact, submerged in a freshwater pool near the ruined Mayan city of Chichen Itza.

The rare find came during construction work on a new tourist railway known as the Maya Train.

In a statement, the Inah said archaeologists had also discovered ceramics, a ritual knife and painted murals of hands on a rockface in the pool, known as a cenote.

Experts from Paris's Sorbonne University have been helping with pin-pointing the canoe's exact age and type, the statement said. A 3D model of it would also be made to allow replicas to be made, and to facilitate further study, it added.

The so-called Maya Train is a multi-billion-dollar project, led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's left-wing government, which will run through five southern Mexican states.

Advocates have said the rail network will help to alleviate poverty in the region.

[blueunicorn6]

The left wing government is building railroads when people are leaving the country by the thousands?

How cruel.

[BenLurkin]

I’m just surprised that the pinkos at BBC referred to it a a left-wing government.

Didn’t think that was in their lexicon.

[dblshot]

Probably used to ferry “migrants” over the Rio Grande.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Anyone remember about fifty or so years ago when a 500 year old dugout canoe was found in the Louisiana swamps after a hurricane?

[wardaddy]

Tiny canoe

Very very shallow sides with no gunwales

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

• Ancient Civilization Structures With Cosmic Significance Discovered Beneath Mexico [10/27/2021]
• Archaeologists detect thousands of ruins along Mexico's Maya Train route [10/25/2021]

[logi_cal869]

Article says something about ‘replicas’.

Picture seems to me to suggest an imposing buoyancy problem with those replicas... /s

[j.havenfarm]

Please return it to me. It’s Mayan

[PLMerite]

“Tiny canoe”

I get the impression that it wasn’t meant to be crewed. Article said something about it being used “to extract water or deposit ritual offers.” So it was more of a floating container than an actual water craft, methinks.

[Covenantor]

LOL
well played.....

[Larry Lucido]

Has anyone told H.E. Pennypacker?

[tet68]

“Tiny canoe” and Brandon Too!

[SunkenCiv]

lol

[tet68]

A memory like mine is a terribly wasted thing.

[GOP Poet]

Amazing

[PghBaldy]

Post of the week!

[CJ Wolf]

The rail road will make the journey much quicker and easier

[CJ Wolf]

Or a child sacrifice boat. They used to put kids on them.

[SunkenCiv]

I’ve moved onto Failing Memory Lane, but so far, at least I remember where I live, unlike Brainless Joe.