Archaeologists discover ancient Mayan city at Mexico construction site

[Elisa]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/27/mexico-mayan-city-xiol-discovered

 

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Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city filled with palaces, pyramids and plazas on a construction site of what will become an industrial park near Mérida, on  Mexico ’s Yucatán peninsula.
The site, called Xiol, has features of the Mayan Puuc style of architecture, archaeologists said, which is common in the southern Yucatán peninsula but rare near Mérida
“We think more than 4,000 people lived around here,” said Carlos Peraza, one of the archaeologists who led the excavation of the city, estimated to have been occupied from 600 to 900 AD.
“There were people from different social classes … priests, scribes, who lived in these great palaces, and there were also the common people who lived in small buildings,” Peraza said.

 

[guy]

A really wonderful find. There is so much of pre-Colombian culture in the Americas that we don’t know. Hopefully, the use of of new technologies (such as LiDAR scanning) can uncover these ancient settlements before environmental degradation and human impact destroy them forever.

 

 

 

Edited May 29, 2022 by guy

[Elisa]

On 5/29/2022 at 4:25 PM, guy said:

A really wonderful find. There is so much of pre-Colombian culture in the Americas that we don’t know. Hopefully, the use of of new technologies (such as LiDAR scanning) can uncover these ancient settlements before environmental degradation and human impact destroy them forever.

 

 

 

Absolutely!Thanks for posting the videos, such a wonderful site, not to mention all the pottery and the tools found in the excavations!