mikewlig Posted June 21, 2013 Report Share Posted June 21, 2013 The discovery team has dubbed it Chactun (meaning red or large rock), and says it's one of the largest to be found in the Yucatan's central lowlands. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/20/us-mexico-maya-idUSBRE95J0ZP20130620 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecoons Posted June 21, 2013 Report Share Posted June 21, 2013 Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holdrja Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 Cool. Thanks for posting! The Mayan art, society and ruins are fascinating. I find the ones that have not been entirely cleared to be far more evocative than the scrubbed and antiseptic big tourist sites like Chichen Itza. Looking forward to checking this one out in a decade or so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmh Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 There are 3 or 4 others that were discovered within the last couple of years and many that have not had much work done on them. It will take a long time and lots of money to work on them. I agree the partially dug out ones are much more interesting and now that they writing has been deciphered it is absolutely fascinating. I visit ToninĂ¡ every year and I learn new things every year as the anthropologists find new information and that can be said of all of the ruins that are being worked on. It is just fascinating. That leaves lots of work to be done and lots of new information for the upcoming generations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathyTX Posted June 23, 2013 Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 Fascinating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy in CO Posted June 23, 2013 Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 Very interesting. We were in the region visiting Calakmul, south of where this new site seems to be, in 2010. It's possible that there was some relationshipi with Calakmul, either through marriage or political alliance, though in the story of the Maya there are many cases when alliances collapsed or re-arranged themselves. Calakmul is not very far from where it appears Chactun is located. Here's another link to another story about the site with a video that's worth watching (though it's in Spanish). http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-maya-ruins-city-chactun-mexico-discovered-yucatan-20130621,0,4153793.story Thanks for posting this--N. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikewlig Posted June 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WQguDtodNbI#at=51 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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