Vast ancient Mayan city is found in a Mexican jungle — by accident

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-31 01:29:56 | Updated at 2024-10-31 03:37:20 2 hours ago

Vast ancient Mayan city is found in a Mexican jungle — by accident
NBC ^ | Oct. 29, 2024 | Hannah Peart

Posted on 10/30/2024 6:22:41 PM PDT by rdl6989

A graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico unexpectedly stumbled across a huge ancient Mayan city buried beneath dense jungle.

For centuries, the city lay hidden amid jungle canopy in the state of Campeche, on the Gulf of Mexico. New research published Tuesday in the journal Antiquity reveals sites that in total cover area about one-and-a-half times the size of Washington, D.C.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: campeche; gulfoffmexico; mayan; mexico; valeriana

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1 posted on 10/30/2024 6:22:41 PM PDT by rdl6989

To: SunkenCiv

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They couldn’t leave “climate change” out of this either.

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