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archaeologicalnews:
A 15-year-old boy believes he has discovered a forgotten Mayan city using satellite photos and Mayan astronomy.
William Gadoury, from Quebec, came up with the theory that the Maya civilization chose the location of its towns and cities according to its star constellations.
He found Mayan cities lined up exactly with stars in the civilization’s major constellations.
Studying the star map further, he discovered one city was missing from a constellation of three stars.
Using satellite images provided by the Canadian Space Agency and then mapped on to Google Earth, he discovered the city where the third star of the constellation suggested it would be. Read more.
BUMMER: This is not actually a breakthrough. The archaeologist whose area of specialty that is was like, “uh, that’s a marijuana field, I know, I looked at it too because I also knew about that constellation thing, and we were pretty hopeful, but nope. Bummer, right? Be awesome if some fuckin’ kid on the Internet could do my job.” *drags on cigarette* OK my source for this is my boyfriend reading me the article and not linking it to me, but you know, I’m sure he’s right.
archaeologicalnews:
A 15-year-old boy believes he has discovered a forgotten Mayan city using satellite photos and Mayan astronomy.
William Gadoury, from Quebec, came up with the theory that the Maya civilization chose the location of its towns and cities according to its star constellations.
He found Mayan cities lined up exactly with stars in the civilization’s major constellations.
Studying the star map further, he discovered one city was missing from a constellation of three stars.
Using satellite images provided by the Canadian Space Agency and then mapped on to Google Earth, he discovered the city where the third star of the constellation suggested it would be. Read more.
BUMMER: This is not actually a breakthrough. The archaeologist whose area of specialty that is was like, “uh, that’s a marijuana field, I know, I looked at it too because I also knew about that constellation thing, and we were pretty hopeful, but nope. Bummer, right? Be awesome if some fuckin’ kid on the Internet could do my job.” *drags on cigarette* OK my source for this is my boyfriend reading me the article and not linking it to me, but you know, I’m sure he’s right.
