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Fascinating.....

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...ps-to-discover-ancient-mayan-7452591.php

Gadoury became curious as to why the Mayans lived where they did, often removed from natural options like rivers. He started to focus on twenty-two Mayan constellations and began to wonder if there any correlation with the placement of Mayan cities in Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and El Salvador.

He had solid grounds for his theory: Mayans placed a heavy emphasis on astrology, the idea that the stars directly affect life on Earth. They would use astrological signs to determine farming cycles, so it stands to reason that the signs could influence where Mayans would want to live. Gadoury started to map out the constellations and noticed that they corresponded with 117 known Mayan cities. Then he decided to add a twenty-third constellation to his map.

The twenty-third constellation was a small one, only three stars. But Gadoury, using Google Maps and later images from the Canadian Space Agency, was able to determine that a 118th city should correspond to it. He plugged in the appropriate coordinates, you can see what he found above. Dr. Armand LaRocque, a remote sensing specialist from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, who is working with Gadoury, believes it is a Mayan pyramid surrounded by thirty smaller structures.

Pretty cool! Kids got a future.

Brilliant kid!

All civilizations other that Christian are spawns of the devil... All religious books other than the Bible are myth.

The Bible is too
You're really not "special" just for thinking you are

If the kid really did determine for a first time as the article implies that there was a connection between the layout of the stars and the spatial location of Mayan temples, he needs to write his PhD dissertation and get published immediately, all that pesky coursework can wait till later.

whoosh....






(guess you were too busy minding your own business to see the sarcasm?)

...and you're not really special for thinking you're the authority of what is or isn't myth just because you can post whatever comes to mind on the innanet....


wooooooooooshhhhhhhhhh!

More make believe science.

Exactly, how? By using what is known about Mayan culture and constellations to triangulate on what might well be another archeaological site from the Mayan era? That's "make believe", how?

Would it be similar make believe if the work done was to use military records from WWII and satellite mapping capabilities to triangulate on and find the possible location of a WWII ship wreck? Or, similar from eras prior to the 1940s? Same technology; same science involved; similar results.

no one has a monopoly on the word of God.

What you need is a good 'ol fashioned virgin sacrifice.

Impressive kid, and off to a good start. Kudos to him and his parents too.

I assume this wasn't one of "if obummer had a son".

Nope.

The difference between "din-do nuthin" and "accomplished something".

Great story! Good for him to use limited resources and make a discovery that tenured archeologists didn't think to do!

Thanks Birdy. That's just really cool

Gadoury found something.

Whether it is a Mayan city is still very much in doubt.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/li...-discovery-lost-mayan-city/?intcmp=hpbt3

This kid is obviously in league with Lucifer.

In a statement to Verne, a Spanish publication from El País newspaper, an INAH official said the theory that Mayan people built their cities based on constellations has been discarded by its anthropologists.

Other experts agree.

“The Maya did not design their cities nor their landscapes based on the stars. They did so based on mundane factors such as water sources, availability to raw materials and access to cultivable soil,” said Christopher M. Gotz, a professor and researcher from the Department of Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Yucatan.

"What were they going to live on, star-gazing?" he added.

Dr. Rafael Cobos Palma, a member of the National System of Researchers and PhD in anthropology from Tulane University, said the area was extensively explored since the 1930s by many Mexican and non-Mexican researchers.

Well, the kid is getting an early intro to professional jealousy and the foibles of academia.

First question I have is if the area the kid pinpointed is so thoroughly explored and documented as the critics suggest, how come none of them can tell us what the particular rectangle on the satellite images is?

Secondly, Garoudy's premise that Mayan communities and temples were often laid out independent of the usual food, water and resource considerations oughtta be easily verifiable.

Birdwatcher