!Discover the ruins of an entire city with its pyramids and palaces dating back to the Mayan civilization
Archaeologists in Mexico announced the discovery of the ruins of an entire ancient city, dating back to the Mayan civilization, and filled with pyramids, palaces and public squares.
The site where the ruins of the city were found, is being worked on to become an industrial park, near Merida in the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula.
Archaeologists said the site, called Sheol, features Mayan Bok architecture, which is usually common in the southern Yucatan peninsula, but is rare near Merida where the ruins of the city have been discovered.
The archaeologist who led the excavations at the site, Carlos Peraza, says that the discovered city, according to estimates, was inhabited between the years 600 to 900 AD, noting that, according to preliminary information, more than 4 thousand people lived in that city when it was inhabited. .
Peraza, he said that the people who lived in the discovered city, belonged to several social classes, writers and priests lived in the great palaces, as well as ordinary people who lived in small houses.
Archaeological researchers have located nearby tombs for adults and young children, who were buried with obsidian and flint tools.
In addition to the above, archaeologists discovered at the site, the remains of marine life in the area, and this indicates that the inhabitants of that city, supplemented their diet based on agriculture, by fishing along the nearby coast in the Mexican Peninsula.
The city was discovered, on a site designated to be an industrial park, whose construction is scheduled to continue, and it is likely that the urban expansion in the area caused the destruction of many archaeological remains, according to Peraza, noting that they, as archaeologists, were surprised when they found the ruins of the city, because they did not expect to find On such a well-preserved site.
The Mayan civilization is considered one of the greatest civilizations in the western hemisphere, and it extended in many locations, including Mexico, and it was previously announced in June of 2020, the discovery of the largest and oldest building erected by the ancient Mayan civilization, and it was a high and huge rectangular platform built of stone And clay, scientists estimated that it was built around 1000 BC, in the Mexican state of Tabasco.
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