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Title: Unknown ancient Mayan city discovered deep in Mexican jungle
Post by: Kamaji on June 23, 2023, 12:17:05 pm
Unknown ancient Mayan city discovered deep in Mexican jungle

By Katherine Donlevy
June 22, 2023

Archaeologists exploring the deep jungles of Mexico uncovered the remains of a previously unknown ancient Mayan city.

A team from the Archeology Council of the National Institute of Anthropology and History discovered the city, which they named Ocomtun — meaning “stone column” in the Yucatec Maya language — while searching a largely untraversed stretch of the Balamku ecological reserve on the country’s Yucatan Peninsula, the group said Tuesday.

The scientists discovered large pyramid-like buildings, stone columns, three plazas with “imposing buildings” and other structures arranged in almost-concentric circles scattered throughout the thousand-year-old ancient settlement.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/ancient-mayan-city-ocomtun-discovered-in-mexican-jungle/
Title: Re: Unknown ancient Mayan city discovered deep in Mexican jungle
Post by: sneakypete on June 23, 2023, 09:29:43 pm
Unknown ancient Mayan city discovered deep in Mexican jungle

By Katherine Donlevy
June 22, 2023

Archaeologists exploring the deep jungles of Mexico uncovered the remains of a previously unknown ancient Mayan city.

A team from the Archeology Council of the National Institute of Anthropology and History discovered the city, which they named Ocomtun — meaning “stone column” in the Yucatec Maya language — while searching a largely untraversed stretch of the Balamku ecological reserve on the country’s Yucatan Peninsula, the group said Tuesday.

The scientists discovered large pyramid-like buildings, stone columns, three plazas with “imposing buildings” and other structures arranged in almost-concentric circles scattered throughout the thousand-year-old ancient settlement.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/ancient-mayan-city-ocomtun-discovered-in-mexican-jungle/

@Kamaji

I LOVE stuff like this.
Title: Re: Unknown ancient Mayan city discovered deep in Mexican jungle
Post by: Free Vulcan on June 23, 2023, 09:34:11 pm
Best part is it will not have been looted, and they might find some good stuff.

Would love it if they found a codex there.
Title: Re: Unknown ancient Mayan city discovered deep in Mexican jungle
Post by: Gefn on June 23, 2023, 10:10:41 pm
Bkmk
Title: Re: Unknown ancient Mayan city discovered deep in Mexican jungle
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 24, 2023, 04:21:32 am
Best part is it will not have been looted, and they might find some good stuff.

Would love it if they found a codex there.
:beer: :yowsa:
Title: Re: Unknown ancient Mayan city discovered deep in Mexican jungle
Post by: sneakypete on June 24, 2023, 04:35:09 am
:beer: :yowsa:

@Smokin Joe

I am REALLY hoping they will end up doing a tv show that shows and explains their findings. If they do,I will be tuning in!
Title: Re: Unknown ancient Mayan city discovered deep in Mexican jungle
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 24, 2023, 04:38:13 am
@Smokin Joe

I am REALLY hoping they will end up doing a tv show that shows and explains their findings. If they do,I will be tuning in!
You know the reason they're gone....

"Climate Change"

(But if it got colder then, why is warming now a bad thing?)