Archaeologists Discover 2,000-Year-Old Mayan Palace in Mexico

Published September 7, 2011 |

A team of Mexican specialists discovered remnants of a 2,000- Archaelogists Discover 2,000-Year-Old Mayan Palace in Mexico 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..

FoxNews Latino; Photo courtesy of The National Institute of Anthropology and History

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