Archeologists are starting to unlock even more Maya secrets with the exciting find of two ancient cities in a Mexican forest .
The cities , which were discover in the body politic ofCampeche , Yucatan peninsula , stay unexplored for C as they were cloaked in dense vegetation , appearing as nothing more than mounds of grass and trees to the untrained middle . Archeologists work in Central America know all too well what normally lies beneath these grassy protrusion , but this special site had been for the most part inaccessible for many year and thus continue untouched .
allot to expedition leader Ivan Sprajc , the team located the metropolis with the help of aerial exposure , Discovery Newsreports . The site is in reality close to another Maya metropolis called Chactun that was also light upon by Sprajc back in 2013 . The area hosting these ancient downfall is massive , some 1800 straight mi , stretching between the Rio Bec and Chenes regions .
Amongst the determination was an telling façade with an entrance do in the Harlan F. Stone jaws of a monster . Maya façades are temple door that were usually elaborately adorn , often with huge , flowery masks .
The façade and various other contribution of this picky city were actually first document in the 70s by an American archeologist , Eric Von Euw , who visited the site and mint it Lagunita . While he may have made some useful survey , he did a very poor job of recording the location of the city and thus no one was capable to re - delineate his footsteps .
When the researchers compared the façade with Von Euw ’s illustrations it was clear that the city detect was indeed the long lose Lagunita . grant to Sprajc , the façade represents a Maya earth deity associated with birth rate . “ These doorways represent the entry to a cave and , in general , to the watery underworld , ” he add .
Alongside the monster façade , the squad also discovered various palace - like buildings encircling four plazas , a Lucille Ball court and a 65 foot magniloquent Pyramids of Egypt . Some of the stone also featured lettering , one of which was etch on November 29 , A.D. 711 .
The second city , which was a new find , has been named Tamchen , which means “ deeply well ” in Yucatec Mayan . This is due to the fact that it features an impressive act of underground chamber that were establish to collect rainwater . like to Lagunita , Tamchen also had several plazas lined with buildings and a tumid Pyramids of Egypt tabernacle . While the team is not certain when these cities were built , there is some grounds to suggest that Tamchen could go out as far back as 300 B.C.
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