{"id":5043,"date":"2013-06-24T10:11:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T00:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2013-06-24T10:12:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T00:12:01","slug":"chactun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2013\/06\/chactun-5043.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayan Pyramids Discovered in Chactun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Incredibly, ancient cities are still being discovered, with large & intact buildings. Some jungles really are extremely impenetrable! Two weeks ago one was found in Cambodia, and now a Mayan city has been located in Mexico<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The city was recently spotted in aerial photographs that had been snapped some 15 years ago by the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity. A team of archeologists then spent about three weeks cutting a 10-mile path into the opaque jungle to reach the site marked on their aerial map.<\/p>\n
So far, the archeologists have found in the 54-acre stretch some 15 pyramids, one of which is about 75 feet tall, as well as ball courts that indicate the city was likely a prominent one in the empire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Every pyramid and structure provides new possibilities for writing to be discovered, and perhaps clues to why the Long Count calendar was set to end last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Incredibly, ancient cities are still being discovered, with large & intact buildings. Some jungles really are extremely impenetrable! Two weeks ago one was found in Cambodia, and now a Mayan city has been located in Mexico:
\nThe city was recently spotted in aerial photographs that had been snapped some 15 years ago by the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity. A team of archeologists then spent about three weeks cutting a 10-mile path into the opaque jungle to reach the site marked on their aerial map.
\nSo far, the archeologists have found in the 54-acre stretch some 15 pyramids, one of which is about 75 feet tall, as well as ball courts that indicate the city was likely a prominent one in the empire.
\nEvery pyramid and structure provides new possibilities for writing to be discovered, and perhaps clues to why the Long Count calendar was set to end last …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pyramids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5049,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions\/5049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}