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  • 2,000-year-old palace discovered in Mexico

    09/03/2011 11:51:01 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 25 replies
    Bioscholar ^ | Friday, September 2nd, 2011 | unattributed
    A team of Mexican specialists discovered remnants of a 2,000-year-old Mayan palace at an archaeological site in the southeastern state of Chiapas. "The discovery constitutes the first architectural evidence of such an early occupation of the ancient Mayan cities of the Upper Usumacinta basin" in the Lacandona Jungle, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement Wednesday. The project's director, Luis Alberto Martos, said this new discovery was made in a sunken courtyard located in the northern part of the the Plan de Ayutla archaeological site and represents the first evidence of occupation of that area between...