Ancient Mayan city discovered at construction site
More than 4,000 people lived here.
The ruins of an ancient Mayan city filled with palaces, pyramids and plazas have been discovered by archaeologists at a construction site that was to become an industrial park near Merida in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
The site, called Xiol, has features of the Mayan Puuc style of architecture, archaeologists said, which is common in the southern Yucatan Peninsula but rare near Merida.
"We think more than 4,000 people lived around here," said Carlos Peraza, one of the archaeologists who led the excavation of the city, estimated to have been occupied from 600-900 A.D., according to Reuters.
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28 мая 2022, 17:03
