Archaeologists Find Thousand-Year-Old Maya Palace
However, they fear the find could be damaged by the sun and wind.
Mexican archaeologists have discovered a previously unknown palace of the Maya civilization, more than a thousand years old. This is reported by the BBC.
The remains of the building, 6 meters high, 55 meters long and 15 meters wide, were found during excavations at the site of the ancient city of Kuluba on the Yucatan Peninsula. Scientists are convinced that the palace was used over 2 historical eras, starting from the 7th century AD.
The Maya civilization existed for more than a thousand years before Spanish conquistadors seized the region. At its height, the Maya civilization controlled large parts of what is now southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.
The National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico believes that the palace was probably used during 2 periods of Maya history: first from the 7th to the 9th centuries AD, and then from the mid-9th to the 11th centuries. Researchers are also studying 4 other buildings in the area: an altar, the remains of 2 residential houses and a circular structure that is probably a kiln.
One of the archaeologists said: “This work is only the beginning, because we have found one of the largest structures, but there are others too”.
There are concerns that the find could be damaged by the sun and wind, so environmentalists are considering the idea of planting forest around the Kuluba archaeological zone near the popular Caribbean resort of Cancun.
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