Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Archaeology Update

Lost City Revealed Under Centuries of Jungle Growth: "Hidden for centuries, the ancient Maya city of Holtun, or Head of Stone, is finally coming into focus.

Three-dimensional mapping has 'erased' centuries of jungle growth, revealing the rough contours of nearly a hundred buildings, according to research presented earlier this month."

2 comments:

Dianna Shipman said...

BTW, There are plenty of such sites in southern Mexico that archeologists haven't gotten around to surveying / excavating yet. I've seen some of them and I'm not the only non-local that has. Some of them have been pretty well looted by antiquities thieves, but many haven't. Ironically, the current drug turf wars have drastically diminished such thievery.

Cap'n Bob said...

Paging Dr. Challenger!