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Archaeologists discover ancient Mayan city at Mexico construction site

Archaeologists discover ancient Mayan city on construction site

As per the report, burial grounds of adults and children have been located nearby. Marine life were also discovered in the area 

Archeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city filled with palaces, pyramids and plazas on a construction site of what is to become an industrial park near Merida, on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The site, called Xiol, has features of the Mayan Puuc style of architecture, archeologists 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 archeologists who led the excavation of the city, estimated to have been occupied from 600 AD to 900AD. “There were people fro...

Researchers estimate the city, which features the Mayan Puuc style of architecture, to have been occupied from AD600 to 900