{"id":29385,"date":"2020-07-06T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T13:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29385"},"modified":"2020-07-06T08:54:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T13:54:41","slug":"aguada-fenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/06\/aguada-fenix\/","title":{"rendered":"Aguada F\u00e9nix"},"content":{"rendered":"

From<\/a> NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (13 June 2020):<\/p>\n

The oldest and largest known monument built by the Mayan civilisation has been found in Mexico. Called Aguada F\u00e9nix, it is a huge raised platform 1.4 kilometres long.<\/p>\n

Aguada F\u00e9nix was built around 1000 BC, centuries before the Maya began constructing their famous\u00a0stepped pyramids<\/a>. Its design suggests that early Mayan societies were fairly egalitarian and didn\u2019t have a powerful ruling class.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a lovely accompanying remote sensing picture of the area, but I was curious what it looks like au naturel, so I dug a picture up:<\/p>\n

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Source: Pagina66<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

It makes me wonder what’s under my feet. I’ve found several toys from previous owners of this property, but somehow they don’t have the magic of a Mayan ruin. But this picture explains why we keep finding ancient civilization artifacts, even huge ones – they’re\u00a0very well\u00a0hidden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From NewScientist (13 June 2020): The oldest and largest known monument built by the Mayan civilisation has been found in Mexico. Called Aguada F\u00e9nix, it is a huge raised platform 1.4 kilometres long. Aguada F\u00e9nix was built around 1000 BC, centuries before the Maya began constructing their famous\u00a0stepped pyramids. Its \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29408,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29385\/revisions\/29408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}