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Published on May 10, 2016
Forgotten Mayan city 'discovered' in Central America by 15-year-old
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.

William has named the yet-to-be explored city in the Yucatan jungle K'aak Chi, or Mouth of Fire.

View of the ancient 'Valley of the Warriors' in Chiapas, Southern Mexico, which has recently been shown to be the largest pyramidal acropolis in Mesoamerica (file image) (Picture: [copyright]) Satellite images compared with Google Earth show potentially man-made structures beneath the jungle canopy (Canadian Space Agency) Satellite images compared with Google Earth show potentially man-made structures beneath the jungle canopy (Canadian Space Agency)
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Daniel De Lisle, from the Canadian Space Agency, said the area had been difficult to study because of its dense vegetation. However, satellite scans of the area found linear features which "stuck out".
"There are linear features that would suggest there is something underneath that big canopy," he told The Independent. "There are enough items to suggest it could be a man made structure."

Doctor Armand La Rocque, from the University of New Brunswick, said one image showed a street network and a large square which could possibly be a pyramid.

He told The Independent: "A square is not natural, it is mostly artificial and can hardly be attributed to natural phenomena. "If we add these together, we have a lot of indication there might be a Mayan city in the area."

Dr La Rocque said William's discovery could lead archaeologists to find other Mayan cities using similar techniques.

William's discovery will be published in a scientific journal and he will present his findings at Brazil's International Science fair in 2017.
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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.

William has named the yet-to-be explored city in the Yucatan jungle K'aak Chi, or Mouth of Fire.

View of the ancient 'Valley of the Warriors' in Chiapas, Southern Mexico, which has recently been shown to be the largest pyramidal acropolis in Mesoamerica (file image) (Picture: [copyright])   Satellite images compared with Google Earth show potentially man-made structures beneath the jungle canopy (Canadian Space Agency)   Satellite images compared with Google Earth show potentially man-made structures beneath the jungle canopy (Canadian Space Agency)


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View of the ancient 'Valley of the Warriors' in Chiapas, Southern Mexico, which has recently been shown to be the largest pyramidal acropolis in Mesoamerica (file image) (Picture: [copyright])
Daniel De Lisle, from the Canadian Space Agency, said the area had been difficult to study because of its dense vegetation. However, satellite scans of the area found linear features which "stuck out".

"There are linear features that would suggest there is something underneath that big canopy," he told The Independent. "There are enough items to suggest it could be a man made structure."

Doctor Armand La Rocque, from the University of New Brunswick, said one image showed a street network and a large square which could possibly be a pyramid.

He told The Independent: "A square is not natural, it is mostly artificial and can hardly be attributed to natural phenomena. "If we add these together, we have a lot of indication there might be a Mayan city in the area."

Dr La Rocque said William's discovery could lead archaeologists to find other Mayan cities using similar techniques.

William's discovery will be published in a scientific journal and he will present his findings at Brazil's International Science fair in 2017.

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12 May 2016





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Satellite images of the site suggest some form of human intervention on the ground


Is it a lost Mayan city or a crop of cannabis?
Earlier this week BBC Trending, and other media outlets, reported on the story of William Gadoury, a remarkable teenager from Canada who, along with the Canadian Space Agency and the University of New Brunswick, claimed to have discovered evidence of the existence of an ancient Mayan city hidden in the jungles of Mexico. But now some experts have disputed those claims.

William, 15, from Quebec theorised that the locations of Mayan cities might correspond to stars in Mayan constellations.
By overlaying Mayan star maps from ancient books onto Google Earth images of the Yucatan Peninsula, he concluded that 117 Mayan cities matched the star positions. After finding a discrepancy at a certain location in the Mexican jungle, he was provided with radar images by the Canadian Space Agency, and asked a Remote Sensing expert Dr. Armand Larocque from the University of New Brunswick to analyse them. They concluded that William had found an ancient city - one which he named K'aak Chi meaning 'Mouth of Fire'.

Scientists from the Canadian Space Agency described William's work as "exceptional" and presented him with a medal of merit. The inspirational story went viral. But since then several experts have challenged the research's conclusions and the prominence given to them by the media.

"The whole thing is a mess - a terrible example of junk science hitting the internet in free-fall," wrote Dr David Stuart, an anthropologist and an authority on Mayan civilisation in a post on his Facebook page.

"The ancient Maya didn't plot their ancient cities according to constellations," he added. "Seeing such patterns is a rorschach process, since sites are everywhere, and so are stars. The square feature that was found on Google Earth is indeed man-made, but it's an old fallow cornfield, or milpa."

Another anthropologist, Thomas Garrison from the University of Southern California, also thinks it's corn field. He told Gizmodo that remote sensing needs to be backed up by boots on the ground, or "ground-truthing". He said "You have to be able to confirm what you are identifying in a satellite image or other type of scene.".

And another expert, Geoffrey Braswell from the University of San Diego, suggested that the boy may have, in fact, found a Marijuana field.

If William is wrong - and that point may not be definitively settled until an expedition is sent to the site - then this talented teenager can take comfort that a lot of journalists and professional scientists, including some from the Canadian Space Agency were also persuaded. But then discovering lost civilisations isn't exactly rocket science.

THIS 15 YEAR OLD BOY DISCOVERED A LOST MAYAN CITY BY USING GOOGLE MAPS.

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Using Google Earth and a simple star chart, 15 year old Canadian teen, William Gadoury has discovered what he believes to be the lost ruins of an ancient Mayan City. Based in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, he may just be right!

"The Mayans were extremely good builders, but they often built in places that made little practical sense — far from rivers, far from fertile areas," – he explained to CBC News.

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As many scientists and historians have discussed, he believes that the Mayans built their cities in correspondence with the stars.

This was compared to 22 Mayan constellations where ruins have already been found. As noted, 117 Mayan ruins do in fact match their ancient star charts.

This all started when he realized that out of all of these constellations, the 23rd didn't seem to have a match. He decided that if all the previous findings were anything to go by, there must be a lost city out there!

Taking his research a step further, he referred to Google Earth images to see if he could spot any man made structure between the Yucatan vegetation.

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Eventually, he spotted what appeared to look a lot like the outlines of pyramid platforms (which were the structural style of the Mayans) in a lost Mayan city.

Winning at his school's science fair for his achievement, he earned a trip to a conference organized by the Canadian Space Agency.

Presenting his theory to their liaison officer Daniel Delisle, he realized that Gadoury was  on to something special. Allowing him access to Google Earth's high definition images, he would perhaps be able to corroborate his theory.

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These images did in fact match up with Gadoury's previous suggestions, adding more weight to his findings, named K'aak Chi, or Mouth Of Fire.

"The satellite image just gives us a horizon of information — we really need to go underneath [the forest canopy] to see if there's anything," Delisle said.

"We are pretty sure that there are some features hidden there ... I think there's a high potential of finding a city."

Who knows what we may next discover?

http://thespiritscience.net/2016/06/21/lost-mayan-city-discovered-by-15-year-old-using-google-maps/