Tag: Maya
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PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident
The BBC has a story about the accidental discovery of a huge Maya city. Luke Auld-Thomas, a PhD student at Tulane university in the US, came across a laser survey by a Mexican organisation for environmental monitoring and noticed something interesting… a lost city deep in the jungle of the Mexican state of Campeche. The…
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Archaeologists Discover 1,700-Year-Old Jade Mask Inside the Tomb of a Maya King
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about the discovery in a Mayan mask in Guatemala. The jade artifact dates to about 350 C.E and is made of jade. The site near Chochkitam, Guatemala is a Mayan tomb, which also held rare mollusk shells, carvings, and other funeral offerings. The archaeological site, known as Chochkitam, is located…
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Scientists Discover an Unexpected Danger Lurking in Ancient Mayan Cities
SciTechDaily has a story about an unexpected discovery in some Mayan ruins. It shouldn’t be surprising that pollution isn’t a modern invention. The Romans used lead extensively and maybe have suffered lead poisoning. Now, some researchers at the Australian Catholic University have discovered mercury pollution in some of the cities of the Mayan civilization in…
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NYT: Unearthing a Maya Civilization That ‘Punched Above Its Weight’
The NY Times has a story about the discovery about 2,500 year old Mayan ruins. The ruins were found just three years ago near Chiapas, Mexico in a pasture. The researchers, Dr. Charles Golden and Andrew Scherer have been collaborating in the remote areas of historical Mesoamerica since the late 1990’s. They worked together on…
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Why did the Maya civilization collapse?
Live Science has a story about the Maya and what may have caused the collapse of their society about 1000 years ago. Usually a mix of environmental and political problems are sited as the reason for the collapse. There were severe droughts between 800 CE and 1000 CE. However, collapse may be a bad description…
