2,000-year-old palace discovered in Mexico

[Judi Lynn]

2,000-year-old palace discovered in Mexico
Mexico City, Sep 2 (IANS/EFE)

A team of Mexican specialists discovered remnants of a 2,000-year-old Mayan palace at an archaeological site in the southeastern state of Chiapas.

"The discovery constitutes the first architectural evidence of such an early occupation of the ancient Mayan cities of the Upper Usumacinta basin" in the Lacandona Jungle, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement Wednesday.

The project's director, Luis Alberto Martos, said this new discovery was made in a sunken courtyard located in the northern part of the the Plan de Ayutla archaeological site and represents the first evidence of occupation of that area between 50 B.C. and 50 A.D.

Martos added that the earliest concrete evidence of Mayan occupation of that region before now had dated back only to 250 A.D.

More:
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/187834/2000-year-old-palace-discovered.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. OH wow that is the pre-classic

that is incredible!

It will lead to a few revisions of the history of Meso-America I am betting

[DeSwiss]

2. Yup.

- And that's been http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe#Dating">happening a lot lately.

K&R

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. In the process of outlining a history of Mexico corse

Guess I will have to go to college to read the last two years of Arqueologia de Mexico

[xchrom]

3. recommend

[Odin2005]

5. Wow, that's way back in the Archaic (pre-classical) Mayan period.

That would be like finding a Palace of Versailles in Charlemagne's Aachen! :wow: