Scientists are once again officially not dumber than schooltime kids , now that it has been suggested that the supposedlost Mayan citydiscovered by a Canadian teenager probably is n’t a city at all .
In what had seemed like the most stunning Mayan - free-base news story since the world failed to end in 2012 , media outlets ( let in us ) had been purring about 15 - year - old William Gadoury , who seemed to have cracked an ancient mystery that had eluded his full - big peers , by noticing that Mayan cities were constructed in alignment with stellar constellations .
Using satellite imaging provide by the Canadian Space Agency , he was then able to pinpoint what many expert claimed was a large man - made structure , deep in the jungle of the Yucatan peninsula . Some began to hint that the foursquare - shaped object was the base of an tremendous Mayan Great Pyramid , and in the initial upheaval the account went global .
However , an archaeologist from the University of California , San Diego , named Geoffrey E. Braswell presently begin in contact withGizmodoand theWashington Postto explicate that he has in fact visited the site , and can substantiate that “ there are no ancient Great Pyramid ” anywhere to be seen . Instead , he claims that “ the two rectangular features identified as pyramids are small fields fill with weeds , ” adding that “ the fields may be fallow or may be active marijuana fields , which are common in the area . ”
So it seems that Gadoury may actually have just queer the hidden surgical procedure of illegal drug manufacturers rather than a historical relic . Regardless of what the field are being used for , though , several other researchers have come out in agreement with Braswell that the features on the planet images are indeed pyramidless plots of land .
Anthropologist Thomas Garrison , who is an expert in distant sensing , told Gizmodo that “ the rectilineal nature of the lineament and the secondary vegetation develop back within it are clear signs of a souvenir milpa , ” a case of cropping field common throughout Mexico and Central America . “ This is obvious to anyone that has spent any time at all in the Maya lowlands , ” he tell .
Just as when people prematurely jump on the2012 - apocalypsebandwagon , it seems that once again we ’ve lease our imaginations run aside with us when it comes to the Mayans . Sadly , some investigator are now even buck apart Gadoury ’s estimate that the pre - Columbian culture built its cities in line with ethereal bodies , intimate that Mayan resolution are just so numerous throughout the Yucatan that find a pattern like this is inevitable once you bet for it .
