Team of International Archaeologists Finds Mayan City Believed to Be 1,400 Years Old artdaily.org
go to original June 20, 2013

Discovered a couple of weeks ago, it is believed that the city was the reigning center of a vast region about 1,400 years ago, between 600 and 900 AD. (Mauricio Marat/INAH)

MEXICO CITY - A team of national and international experts, led by archaeologist Ivan Sprajc, have baptized an ancient Mayan city, that hadn’t been previously reported, as Chactun “Red Stone” or “Big Stone”. This city is located southeast of the state of Campeche, and it’s one of the biggest sites attributed to this civilization that has been registered in the Low Central Lands.

Discovered a couple of weeks ago, it is believed that the city was the reigning center of a vast region about 1,400 years ago, between 600 and 900 AD., informed the archaeologist Ivan Šprajc, who leads the expedition supported by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), indicating that these facts are inferred given the sites dimensions and the quantity of monuments.

The ancient Mayan metropolis is one of the 80 sites that have been located thanks to the Project of Archaeological Recognition in the Southeast of Campeche, which started in 1996. The finding of these places has been principally based in the recognition, by means of big scale aerial photographs.

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