Largest Known Maya Structure Found

Re:Largest Known Maya Structure Found by monadic2 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @06:59PM (#23451813)

Furthermore the land in southeast mexico is very hilly, and when it's not, it's often swampy or waterlogged (or was at the time of the maya). It's certainly more straightforward to use barges.

Related, I very much recommend the book "Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs".

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Re:Largest Known Maya Structure Found by autocorr on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:21PM (#23453290)

I second this book too, it's a great introduction to Mesoamerican civilization. The author, Michael D. Coe, also has another excellent book "Breaking the Maya Code" on the decipherment of the Maya glyphs The fundamentals were done in 1950-60's by Knorozov and Proskouriakoff, but the decipherment was only widely accepted until as recently as the 1970's[1]!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_script#Decipherment

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Re:Largest Known Maya Structure Found by ncmncm on Monday June 08, 2020 @05:53PM (#23461225)

Apparently Richard Feynman made fundamental contributions, being more numerate than your average archaeologist.

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