The ancient Mayan city was discovered in Guatemala, including pyramids and “unique channel system”

The Ministry of Culture in Central America revealed on Thursday that archaeologists have discovered the remains of the city of Mayan, approximately 3000 years in northern Guatemala, with the pyramids and antiquities that indicate their importance as an important festive site.

The Maya civilization arose around the year 2000 BC, when it reached a height between 400 and 900 AD in what is southern Mexico and Guatemala today, as well as parts of Blaze, El Salvador and Honduras.

The city was called “Los Apowlos”, the Spanish for “The Grandparents”, once stood about 13 miles from the important archaeological site for UAXACTUN, in the PEEN section in Guatemala, The ministry said In a statement.

He added that he was a historian of what is known as “pre -classic middle” from about 800 to 500 BC, and he believed that he was “one of the old and important festive centers” of the Maya civilization in the jungle area in Beitin near the Mexican border.

The ministry said: “The site provides remarkable architectural planning” with the pyramids and antiquities “sculpted with unique icons from the region.”

The city takes its name from two sculptures that resemble a person from a “couple of grandparents” on the site.

The ministry said that the numbers dating back to 500 and 300 BC, “can be linked to old ritual practices to worship grandparents.”

“Unique Channel System”

The city, which covers an area of ​​about six square miles, was discovered by Guatemallan and Slovak archaeologists in the areas that were previously reserved in the UAXACTUN Park.

Near -placed, they also found a 108 -foot pyramid with murals from the pre -classic period and “Farid Channel System”, according to the statement.

The ministry said: “The group of these three sites is a previously unknown urban triangle … These results allow us to rethink the understanding of the festive, social and political organization of the pre -Latin house.”

Officials Release Archaeologists who dig at the site and restore a variety of artifacts, as well as the animation of the complex.

In April, scholars Discover a 1000 -year -old altar From the ancient Toyotaanan culture in Mexico in Tikal, elsewhere in the Beitan section.

This discovery was explained as evidence of relations between the two cultures before the Spanish, which lived about 800 miles away. Archaeologists also said that the altar is believed to be used for sacrifices, “especially children.”

Tikal, about 15 miles from UAXCATUN, is the main archaeological site in Guatemala and one of the largest tourist attractions.

Last October, an American doctorate student find out The sprawling city of Maya inside a dense forest in Mexico.

Scientists and archaeologists have discovered the ruins of ancient Maya By launching laser rays Below from a plane to penetrate the dense forest.