Mayan city discovered in Mexico - Republic

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class=”author”> amk 21-06-2013

in the Mexican jungle in a remote nature reserve, archaeologists have discovered a forgotten Mayan city. They hope that it will bring guidance on the mysterious collapse of this civilization a thousand years

discovery was made in the state of Campeche on the Yucatan Peninsula, in the jungle north of Calakmul Biosphere Reserve.

team of archaeologists, led by Professor of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Ivana Sprajca, found 15 pyramids, including a 23-meter, of the ritual ball games, squares and other buildings.

city, dating back 1400 years, archaeologists have called Chactun (Red Rock). Professor. Sprajc believe that it was less populated than other Mayan cities, such as Tikal in Guatemala. It is discovered in the nineteenth century, population 90,000 people.

Chactun covered an area of ??about 22 hectares. It could be inhabited from 30 to 40,000 people, but to establish a more accurate population further studies are needed.

place was known to the academic community. 15 years ago, the state commission on biodiversity in order to monitor the reserve made a series of aerial photographs. The team of prof. Sprajca reviewing archival footage he saw the outlines of the ruins. For three weeks, archaeologists from the 16-kilometer Cutting down the road to the city for the next 6 – performed terrain maps and historical records. Also recently blocked the logging road to prevent access to unauthorized personnel.

team of prof. Sprajca found evidence that Chactun people were from 20-30 years. – Are you sure there were woodcutters – he says. – We have seen traces of felling. But why did not mention to anyone about this place – I do not know.

According to him, the presence of many places for ritual ball games testified that Chactun was a very important city. In the years 600-900 N. E. could be established even the highest authorities of the Maya. It was abandoned about 1000 years, perhaps for reasons of demographic, climate change, war or rebellion. The researchers hope that the study will shed new light Chactun on stusunki between different regions of the Mayan empire during this period.

Mayan civilization was one of the most advanced pre-Columbian America. Mayans ruled over large areas of the Yucatan, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras.

funded research in the Yucatan National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico, the National Geographic Society and two European companies.

first half of this year is full of similar sensational discovery. Recently discovered the lost city of Cambodia Khmer.

Mayan city discovered in the Mexican jungle