Posted on 07/20/2023 9:49:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
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A team of archaeologists discovered a long-lost Mayan city beneath the jungle in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula in June, filled with pyramids, palaces and even a sports complex.
The ancient Mayan ruins, currently named Ocomtun, were identified in the Balamku ecological reserve, which is more than 50 hectares in size, big enough to hide pyramids that rise some 50 feet into the sky, according to a news release from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History. The site is believed to have been built and in use sometime around 250-1,000 A.D. and contained a number of large buildings, plazas, a ball-game complex, and columns that suggest even larger structures.
The site extends to the La Riguena River and features “stairways, monolithic columns, and the absence of monuments with inscriptions,” the news release noted. While archaeologists did hack their way through the jungle to explore the ancient ruins, the discovery was initially made using LiDAR technology.
“These stories about ‘lost cities in the jungle’ — very often these things are quite minor or being spun by journalists,” political anthropologist Simon Martin, who was not involved with the study, told the New York Times. “But this is much closer to the real deal.” (RELATED: Archaeologist Claims ‘Many Features Of The Amazon Are Man-Made’)
While the discovery is certainly a shock to many, as the area was thought to be an “empty zone,” researchers do not believe it will change much in the narrative of Mayan life and their wider civilization. But it does suggest that secrets to our past are hidden, sometimes in plain sight, and just down the road from places we inhabit today.
It is believed that the Mayan civilization was pushed to the point of collapse by extreme weather events and political upheaval some 1,000 or so years ago. Prior to their collapse, they developed intricate agricultural and hydraulic technologies that captured water through limestone-heavy formations in what is a highly inhospitable area today.
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Take a Google earth tour across most of eastern Mexico. That jungle could hide a couple of Manhattan islands worth of buildings. Most of earth is like that, unknown. Or, at least unrecognized.
Did some dingbat monk(ish) walk over some weird spot and come back with incredible stories? Sure. But, why believe some guy who WANTS to avoid his neighbors?
Wow, a totally lost city where they were sure there was nothin. There's so much they still don't know, this discovery should really shake things up! Let's read on...
...researchers do not believe it will change much in the narrative of Mayan life and their wider civilization.
Oh. Well. Sure, that follows. Never mind.
sports fields? or areas of mass human sacrifice?
mayans loved their soccer.
I always wonder how this old cities just depopulate and disappear. Maybe like our own ghost towns I guess.
Plagues................
Cholera maybe.
Or could be famine.
Second year of crop failure and people leave.
In the case of the Mayan civilization, they think drought played a big part in the abandonment of some of their cities.
Plandemics?
Mayan civilization reached a point of “collapse” due to “extreme weather events” beginning approximately five hundred years before the Spanish arrived. How cold that have happened without burning coal and oil or without white supremacy?
Mayan civilization reached a point of “collapse” due to “extreme weather events” beginning approximately five hundred years before the Spanish arrived. How could that have happened without burning coal and oil or without white supremacy?
Yeah, mass human sacrifice was qute popular in Meixico and Central America.
How come virtually every race/people in the world developed sophisticated cultures and societies except sub-Saharan Africans?
Global warming?
Mayan civilization was pushed to the point of collapse by extreme weather events. Automobiles and gas stoves have been found in the remains.
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