FfFfFfFF 58,135 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 An enormous 3,000-year-old earthen platform topped with a series of structures, including a 13-foot-high pyramid, has been identified as the oldest and largest monumental construction discovered in the Maya region, according to a paper published today in the journal Nature. It’s the latest discovery to support the emerging view that some of the earliest structures built in the Maya region were significantly larger than those built more than a millennium later during the Classic Maya period (250-900 A.D.), when the empire was at its peak. The initial construction of the platform is believed to have began around 1,000 B.C. based on radiocarbon dating of charcoal inside the complex. “We think this was a ceremonial center,” Inomata says. “[It’s] a place of gathering, possibly involving processions and other rituals we can only imagine.” So what might have been the purpose for undertaking such a massive communal building project? Study coauthor Verónica Vázquez López of the University of Calgary believes that it might have been a statement of intent: a formal collaboration designed to bring different groups of people together over the course of several generations. Wy was such a big monument at Aguada Fénix not identified earlier? “It’s fairly hard to explain, but when you walk on the site, you don’t quite realize the enormity of the structure,” says archaeologist Takeshi Inomata of the University of Arizona, the lead author of the paper. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/06/massive-ancient-maya-ceremonial-complex-discovered-hiding-plain-sight/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANiCURE 6 10,306 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 This is amazing ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eighteen 5,430 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Reminds me of this poem: Ozymandias by Horace Smith In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desart knows:- "I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone, "The King of Kings; this mighty City shows "The wonders of my hand."- The City's gone,- Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose The site of this forgotten Babylon. We wonder,-and some Hunter may express Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace, He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess What powerful but unrecorded race Once dwelt in that annihilated place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obobo 3,987 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 inb4 a little monster visits and serves it ancient city style - then gets deported. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastertoyo 22,734 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 16 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said: Swiiiiiiiiiiiiine please enlighten me to death Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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