{"id":758,"date":"2022-06-25T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=758"},"modified":"2022-06-26T05:40:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:40:44","slug":"mexico-construction-site-uncovers-mayan-ruins-1400-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/mexico-construction-site-uncovers-mayan-ruins-1400-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Well-preserved 1400-year-old remains of Mayan city found in Mexican construction site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/mayan-ruins-discovered-in-mexico.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/construction-crew-stumbles-on-1400-year-old-ruins-of-maya-mayan-city-180980171\/\">Construction Crew Stumbles on 1,400-Year-Old Ruins of Maya City<\/a><br>\nWhile construction crews were hard at work building a new industrial park near M\u00e9rida in 2015, they stumbled upon the remnants of a historic city. Now, archaeologists in Mexico say the site was once a bustling Maya community with more than 4,000 residents.<br><br> \n\nFilled with palaces, plazas, pyramids and a cenote (a natural sinkhole), Xiol was likely home to a wide variety of Maya people, including dignitaries, scribes, priests and other residents who farmed and fished along the nearby coast, researchers say.<br><br> \n\nThe find is significant because many other archaeological remains have been destroyed as the Kanas\u00edn municipality\u2014located on the outskirts of M\u00e9rida, Yucat\u00e1n\u2019s capital city\u2014has expanded. Xiol will open to the public later this year, reports Yucat\u00e1n Magazine\u2019s Carlos Rosado van der Gracht. \u201cEven we as archaeologists are surprised, because we did not expect to find a site so well preserved,\u201d Carlos Peraza Lope, an archaeologist who led the excavation at Xiol for Mexico\u2019s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), tells Reuters\u2019 Lorenzo Hernandez and Kylie Madry.<br><br> \n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/27\/mexico-mayan-city-xiol-discovered\">Archaeologists discover ancient Maya city at Mexico construction site<\/a><br>\nArchaeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient Maya city filled with palaces, pyramids and plazas on a construction site of what will become an industrial park near M\u00e9rida, on Mexico\u2019s Yucat\u00e1n peninsula.<br><br>\n\nThe site, called Xiol, has features of the Maya Puuc style of architecture, archaeologists said, which is common in the southern Yucat\u00e1n peninsula but rare near M\u00e9rida. \u201cWe think more than 4,000 people lived around here,\u201d said Carlos Peraza, one of the archaeologists who led the excavation of the city, estimated to have been occupied from 600 to 900 AD.<br><br>\n\n(unquote)<br><br>\n\nImage courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/27\/mexico-mayan-city-xiol-discovered\">Lorenzo Hernandez \/ Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) Construction Crew Stumbles on 1,400-Year-Old Ruins of Maya City While construction crews were hard at work building a new industrial park near M\u00e9rida in 2015, they stumbled upon the remnants of a historic city. Now, archaeologists in Mexico say the site was once a bustling Maya community with more<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/mexico-construction-site-uncovers-mayan-ruins-1400-years-old\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,11,12],"tags":[26,27,25,28,41],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-observer","post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-figures-and-facts","category-life-nature-society","category-science-and-technology","category-us-and-world","tag-facts","tag-figures","tag-history","tag-places","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}