Possible Unknown Mayan City discovered by Canadian Teen

[GravitySucks]

This is a really cool article about a Canadian teen that studied the location of known Mayan cities and their relationship to major constellations. He found one star in a constellation that didn't correspond to a known city. It appears that there is a hidden, lost city right where he predicted one should be. I am humbled.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/canadian-teenager-discovers-ancient-mayan-city-lost-in-jungles-o/

[Walks_At_Night]

This is a really cool article about a Canadian teen that studied the location of known Mayan cities and their relationship to major constellations. He found one star in a constellation that didn't correspond to a known city. It appears that there is a hidden, lost city right where he predicted one should be. I am humbled.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/canadian-teenager-discovers-ancient-mayan-city-lost-in-jungles-o/

Damn Gravity.......   Guess if you are not sinking time into watching Falkie talk about Ratty Patty's beater rides, you can accomplish worthwhile things  on the internet.     

[starrmtn001]

This is a really cool article about a Canadian teen that studied the location of known Mayan cities and their relationship to major constellations. He found one star in a constellation that didn't correspond to a known city. It appears that there is a hidden, lost city right where he predicted one should be. I am humbled.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/canadian-teenager-discovers-ancient-mayan-city-lost-in-jungles-o/

Wow!  An amazing discovery by an amazing young man.  I've noticed, over the past few decades, that more children are reaching a higher level of mental acuity at younger ages.  I see this as our next step in evolution, which we are experiencing now.  This is the development of the hard wiring that's necessary for our species survival, IMHO.

[GravitySucks]

I find it truly amazing that the Mayans located 117 (now possible 118) cities in celestial alignment with the brightest stars in 23 constellations, thoughout Mexico and Central America, without the use of modern navigation tools like a compass, a sextant, a portable clock, let alone GPS. And that a teenager would spend 3 years matching them up, finding one that seemed to be missing, and predicted where it should be.

The things people did before TV.

[starrmtn001]

I find it truly amazing that the Mayans located 117 (now possible 118) cities in celestial alignment with the brightest stars in 23 constellations, thoughout Mexico and Central America, without the use of modern navigation tools like a compass, a sextant, a portable clock, let alone GPS. And that a teenager would spend 3 years matching them up, finding one that seemed to be missing, and predicted where it should be.

The things people did before TV.

What's a TV?

[albrecht]

This is a really cool article about a Canadian teen that studied the location of known Mayan cities and their relationship to major constellations. He found one star in a constellation that didn't correspond to a known city. It appears that there is a hidden, lost city right where he predicted one should be. I am humbled.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/canadian-teenager-discovers-ancient-mayan-city-lost-in-jungles-o/

The famed Lost City of Z? Prestor John's kingdom? Inquiring minds want to know.
ps: really cool story. A few years back this happened near us:
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Treasure-ship-near-Refugio-Californian-fighting-1658997.php
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Treasure-hunter-who-tried-to-Google-gold-loses-bid-1748948.php
(I haven't heard any updates since on the subject.)

[Walks_At_Night]

Wow!  An amazing discovery by an amazing young man.  I've noticed, over the past few decades, that more children are reaching a higher level of mental acuity at younger ages.  I see this as our next step in evolution, which we are experiencing now.  This is the development of the hard wiring that's necessary for our species survival, IMHO.

You might be correct.   Just don't hand the young dude at the Food Lion a twenty dollar bill with a penny when you owe $18.76. 

[starrmtn001]

You might be correct.   Just don't handle the young dude at the Food Lion a twenty dollar bill with a penny when you owe $18.76.

No Food Lions anywhere near me, Walks, so I think I'm good to go.

[Walks_At_Night]

No Food Lions anywhere near me, Walks, so I think I'm good to go.

Without Food Lion there is no life!   How do you exist?


Speaking of which, did Food Lion ever return to Bellgab?

[starrmtn001]

Without Food Lion there is no life!   How do you exist?


Speaking of which, did Food Lion ever return to Bellgab?

I haven't seen him in years.  He was a cool BellGabber.

[K_Dubb]

Very cool story if it's true, but it's already being debunked.  Here's some anthropologist guy:



http://gizmodo.com/teen-discovers-lost-maya-city-using-ancient-star-maps-1775735999

[Ciardelo]

Very cool story if it's true, but it's already being debunked.  Here's some anthropologist guy:



http://gizmodo.com/teen-discovers-lost-maya-city-using-ancient-star-maps-1775735999

damnit 

[starrmtn001]

Very cool story if it's true, but it's already being debunked.  Here's some anthropologist guy:



http://gizmodo.com/teen-discovers-lost-maya-city-using-ancient-star-maps-1775735999
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I think I'll hold my opinion in reserve till I get more info.  But thanks for the heads up.

[ShayP]

Very cool story if it's true, but it's already being debunked.  Here's some anthropologist guy:

Soooo...we can expect this kid to be a guest on Hoagland's show.  Maybe become a member of his "panel?"   

[Ciardelo]

Soooo...we can expect this kid to be a guest on Hoagland's show.  Maybe become a member of his "panel?"   

Clearly, the kid has an eye for arcologies.

[PB the Deplorable]

Very cool story if it's true, but it's already being debunked.  Here's some anthropologist guy:

I wondered when it was announced in the media.  Usually they try to keep significant discoveries under wraps until they can secure the site from looters, if not excavate them.

[BobGrau]

What's a TV?

It's the often-misused educational tool that you first learned about the Mayans on. 

[TigerLily]

Very cool story if it's true, but it's already being debunked.  Here's some anthropologist guy:



http://gizmodo.com/teen-discovers-lost-maya-city-using-ancient-star-maps-1775735999

Rats. Disappointing if true, I mean fake, I mean, nm
What may be most disappointing is that even BBC News can't be relied on to do any verification

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

Even if it turns out to be just a maize field, here's some good news.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/20160913/1045255374/ancient-maya-book-authenticity.html

The Grolier Codex is said to have been discovered by looters in an Indian Jones-esque manner in Mexico in the 1960s.

"A reasoned weighing of evidence leaves only one possible conclusion: four intact Mayan codices survive from the Pre-Columbian period and one of them is the Grolier. Our decades of study bring us to the only confirmation that the manuscript, counter to such claims against it for so long, is in fact very real indeed!"