In the jungle of Mexico discovered a previously unknown Mayan city
text: Alexander Temples / Infox.ru
published June 21 ’13 19:09
Archaeologists stumbled upon the ruins of the Mayan city, lost in the jungle in the east of Mexico. Previously, the existence of the city was known only to local loggers that nobody talked about him.
On detection of the city, Reuters reported citing Professor Ivan Spraycha of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Spraych led the expedition, which was supported by the National Geographic Society of America conducted a preliminary examination of the ruins.
City, called Chaktun (“Red Rock”) occupies almost 22 hectares. For the first time, archaeologists noticed it, studying aerial photos of the Yucatan Peninsula. To get to the city, the scientists had almost three weeks hack through the jungle. On the way back, researchers have filled up the trail to the ruins were not able to get marauders.
members of the expedition spent a month and a half in the city and found in it the ruins of 15 stone pyramids, the height of the largest of which is 23 meters. Also Chaktune were found numerous stone stele and golf ball. In total, it is estimated that the maximum number of inhabitants of the city reached 30-40 thousand people.
Chaktuna heyday came in the VII-X century, after which he, like other stone Mayan cities were abandoned. There are signs, it is sometimes visited by a group of local loggers, but scientists about the existence Chaktuna no idea. Recall the recent scholars have suggested that the decline of the Mayan cities led immoderate deforestation.
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