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Related: About this forumTwo Mayan cities discovered in Mexico
A monster mouth doorway, ruined pyramid temples and palace remains emerged from the Mexican jungle as archaeologists unearthed two ancient Mayan cities.
Found in the southeastern part of the Mexican state of Campeche, in the heart of the Yucatan peninsula, the cities were hidden in thick vegetation and hardly accessible.
One of the cities featured an extraordinary facade with an entrance representing the open jaws of an earth monster.
The site was actually visited in the 1970s by the American archaeologist Eric Von Euw, who documented the facade and other stone monuments with yet unpublished drawings.
However, the exact location of the city, referred to as Lagunita by Von Euw, remained lost. All the attempts at relocating it failed.
"The information about Lagunita were vague and totally useless," Sprajc told Discovery News.
"In the jungle you can be as little as 600 feet from a large site and do not even suspect it might be there; small mounds are all over the place, but they give you no idea about where an urban center might be," he added.
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http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/archaeologists-discover-two-long-lost-ancient-maya-cities-jungle-mexico
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/three-ancient-maya-cities-found-in-jungle-140815.htm
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Sort of a silly website sourced in the first link, though.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)take it or leave it, but it always links the source of the story.
I'm sure your sources and contributions are always better.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)one good and one woo central.
Fine, I'm a dick, whatever, but I think the news could be conveyed just as well without the link to the woo blog.
Judi Lynn
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(50,983 posts)newfie11
(8,159 posts)Thanks for posting.