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Prau123 · 2020-04-23T00:56:31Z

Here's an update on some of the new discoveries in recent years in the Mesoamerican region. Tonina - Considered the new tallest structure in Mesoamerica. It's debatable since El Mirador is actually 172 meters tall. The largest structure is still Cholula. There are still several areas in the El Mirador Basin that needs to be excavated and measured. There are 61,000 plus sites that were scanned a few years ago and that was only a mere portion of the El Mirador Basin. 15 facts about the Maya Civilization 1. THEIR PYRAMIDS AND CITIES ARE STILL BEING DISCOVERED.It’s amazing to think that something as large as a pyramid could elude archaeologists today. But it was only a few years ago that a Maya pyramid more than 1000 years old was discovered at Toniná in the Mexican state of Chiapas. It had been hidden under what was believed to be a natural hill. In 2015, researchers said this newfound monument was actually Mexico’s tallest pyramid at 246 feet (75 meters) in height, surpassing the 213-foot Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan. The ruins of two Maya cities concealed by thick vegetation were also recently discovered in Mexico’s state of Campeche. Tonina Picture They also found El Palmar and Angamuco a few years ago also. El Palmar - El Palmar is 40 to 70 times larger than previously acknowledged. It’s 40 times larger than we thought it was,” Garrison says. “This is now this huge city that would have been a rival to Tikal An early city called El Palmar seemed now to be 70 times larger than we had suspected, with raised fields for agriculture. An “isolated” royal palace had an extensive swath of settlement extending a kilometer or more. Angamuco - Angamuco had as many buildings as Manhattan city. A new laser-mapping technology, called lidar, has been used to confirm a truly mind-blowing ancient city buried in western Mexico. Called Angamuco, researchers say that it has about 40,000 buildings. This is around the same amount of building foundations as there are in Manhattan, New York. Whoa! El Mirador - Articles: Videos:

Archaeologists have made an important discovery in the Mexican state of Campeche. During the excavation of the Maya ball field, researchers discovered an underground structure with painted walls.

Ivan Šprajc, an archaeologist from the Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies in Slovenia, who is leading the excavations, spoke about the discovery. According to him, the team discovered parts of an older building with painted walls. However, only further research will be able to reveal the full shape and purpose of this building.

Spreitz emphasized the importance of this discovery, noting that ball courts are usually found only in large Maya settlements that were centers of regional political organization. The National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico reports that the structure may date back to the Early Classic period (200-600 AD) and is covered with a layer of painted stucco.

Підземний храм мая чи таємне сховище? Нове відкриття археологів у Мексиці — Lidar image shows the area with the ball field where parts of the underground structure were found

Prior to the excavation, Spreitz and his colleagues surveyed a large area of the Maya lowlands with lidar, a technology that uses laser pulses to create detailed maps of the area. This allowed them to identify several ancient Maya settlements with the remains of residential buildings and temple pyramids.

In 2023, the team found the lost Mayan city of Okomtun, home to several large pyramids from the Classic Period (approximately 200-900 AD). The new find is located in a previously unexplored area south of Okomtun.

In addition, archaeologists have discovered another site with a square, a 16-meter-high pyramid, and a rectangular water tank. At the top of the pyramid, they found sacrificial offerings: ceramic dishes, a ceramic animal leg (possibly an armadillo), and a flint knife or spearhead.

Spreitz explained that these offerings were left on top of the temple in the late postclassical period (1250-1524), when the central Maya lowlands were already in political disarray. However, small groups of people still roamed the area, leaving offerings on the buildings of their ancestors.

These discoveries in Mexico are part of a broader trend of archaeological research in Latin America that continues to uncover the secrets of the region’s ancient civilizations. In parallel with the work in Campeche, important findings have been made in other parts of the continent.

In northwestern Peru, archaeologists discovered the ruins of 5000-year-old ceremonial temple and human remains under a sand dune. The site is located in the Zaña area and is part of the archaeological complex Los Paredones de la Otra Banda — Las Animas.