Could the Maya Reach Florida?
The Maya were known for their spectacular cities featuring dazzling pyramids. But these cities, often having 100-200,000 inhabitants, required an
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Mesoamerican Archaeology News
The latest news, updates, and discoveries of the archaeology of Mexico and Central America including Maya, Aztec, Toltec, and more.
Mayan Megalopolis Discovered in Guatemalan Jungle
The Mayan civilization has always been impressive but the latest LIDAR scans of the Guatemalan jungle have revealed these cities were
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Tulum’s Mayan Lighthouse
The Putun/Poton Maya were Central America’s most advanced mariners. They controlled coastal trade around the entire Yucatan peninsula down to
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Mayan Super Highways?
Ancient Maya developed super highways network more than 1,000 years ago Roads of more than 240 kilometers long designed,
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Latin American Collections Now Available in Digital Repository
AUSTIN, Texas — More than 500,000 books from the stacks of the Benson Latin American Collection, a trove of treasures
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Canadian teen wins awards, scholarship for ‘lost Mayan city’ research
William Gadoury, the Canadian teen whose “lost Mayan city” research ignited the Internet last week, has won the gold medal in the
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“Academic mafia” attempt hit on teen’s lost Mayan city research. Here’s why.
What the recent public smack down of Canadian teen’s lost Mayan city theory reveals about modern academia. What started earlier
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Canadian Space Agency defends teen’s lost Mayan city research
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has come to the defense of William Gadoury, the Canadian teen who found a possible lost
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Geologist defends teen’s discovery of Mayan lost city against critics
Prominent Mayan academics were quick to dismiss news reports that Canadian teenager William Gadoury had discovered a lost Mayan city the
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Teen discovers lost Mayan city using star map
William Gadoury, a 15 year old Mayan enthusiast from Quebec, recently located a lost Mayan city deep in the jungles of Belize utilizing
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Review: Palenque- Eternal City of the Maya
There is no better, more thorough history of the Mayan site of Palenque than George and David Stuart’s Palenque: Eternal
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Mysterious Golden Spheres Found in Tunnel Beneath Mexican Pyramid
The massive pre-Columbian site of Teotihuacan just outside of Mexico City still has many mysteries. Reaching its height around 200
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