Ancient Mayan city discovered in Mexico jungle by accident | BBC News

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Ancient Mayan city discovered in Mexico jungle by accident | BBC News


A huge Mayan city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico.

Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and amphitheatres in the southeastern state of Campeche.

The hidden complex – which they have called Valeriana – is believed to be second in density only to Calakmul,…

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37 Comments

  1. I lived in Belize for many years and had lots of Mayan friends, there are Maya villages and most of the people speak Mayan among themselves but many speak Creole and Spanish also. The Maya are not gone

  2. How sad that, due to religion and their greedy zealots, beautiful cities and exotic cultures have been lost to mankind; their libraries burned as being works of the Devil. Now only ruins remain.

  3. Someone was literally making videos showing google maps / satellite view 15 years ago showing where these things were. There's tons of them in the jungles down there that have just gotten overgrown and forgotten with time. This is not new news.

  4. Too bad there wasn't some ancient text written by these people, and available to be read today. Oh wait, there is! Allow me to introduce "The Book of Mormon".

  5. Old news. They said this years ago and when scanned with first lidars, that the jungle is full of huge citys and temples. And these are probably way more older to be covered in such thick layer of earth.

  6. It always rubs me the wrong way how the genocide of European colonization isn’t inferred as one of the reasons for the collapses of almost all mesoamerican civilizations.

  7. Shows a 50-70m tall pyramid with zero effort to explain how was building of this size discovered only recently and was hidden by the jungle for all these years. Apparently the discovered structures are only the remains of once big buildings now covered in dense foliage and moss and other deposits. But why I need to guess or deduce that? This is closer to fake news than what one might think.