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keg in kc 05-15-2013 03:52 PM

Ancient Mayan pyramid destroyed for road fill
 
Wow. Just...wow.
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Ancient Mayan pyramid destroyed for road fill

By Brad Lendon, CNN
updated 12:18 PM EDT, Wed May 15, 2013

(CNN) -- A Mayan pyramid that has stood for 2,300 years in Belize has been reduced to rubble, apparently to make fill for roads.

Local media in the Central American country of 334,000 people report the temple at the Noh Mul site in northern Belize was largely torn down by backhoes and bulldozers last week.

"This is one of the worst that I have seen in my entire 25 years of archaeology in Belize," John Morris, an archaeologist with the country's Institute of Archaeology, told local channel 7NewsBelize. "We can't salvage what has happened out here -- it is an incredible display of ignorance."

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The pyramid was the center of a settlement of about 40,000 people and 81 buildings over 12 square miles, according to 7NewsBelize. It stood about 65 feet tall and was built around 250 B.C. with hand-cut limestone bricks, archaeologists said.

The limestone is quality material used to upgrade local roads, and it's prized by contractors, local opposition legislator John Briceno told CTV3 News.

"The Mayas use good material to build their temples, and these temples are close to (the village of) Douglas so that means that they have to use less diesel, less wear and tear; they can do more trips per day, and at the end of the day they can make more money," CTV3 quotes Briceno as saying.

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"Like a huge palace or building or a huge temple, it would have had many rooms in there, multilayered rooms so you have rooms for people living, and you would also had several tombs in there of the people who lived in this area here," Morris told 7NewsBelize.

Awe said archaeologists would try to go through the rubble for artifacts.

"I'm hoping that there will be bits and pieces that we can acquire from any kind of work that we do there. But to say that we can try to preserve the building anymore; that is impossible," he told News5.

The mound sits on private land, and archaeologists said they would ask police to take action against both the landowner and contractor, according to reports.

"It is against the law; it is against the nature act to willfully destroy an ancient monument," Awe told News5. "Any willful destruction of an ancient site or monument has penalties of 10 years' imprisonment or $10,000 for this kind of destruction."
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You know, I never really thought about it, but of course stuff like this happens...

Rasputin 05-15-2013 04:01 PM

That's a shame. Them people are going be cursed hope it's not the end of the world as we know it.

BossChief 05-15-2013 04:04 PM

BlackBob?

Mr. Flopnuts 05-15-2013 04:12 PM

What a bunch of short sighted ****ing reeruns.

gblowfish 05-15-2013 04:13 PM

Hey, that road was important!

OrtonsPiercedTaint 05-15-2013 04:16 PM

The Mayans were only off by about 5 months. Pretty impressive.

Alex Smith 4Ever 05-15-2013 04:18 PM

We demolish buildings all the time to make new ones

It's called progress

CrazyPhuD 05-15-2013 04:18 PM

Progress you can Belize in!

ThaVirus 05-15-2013 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex Smith 4Ever (Post 9684950)
We demolish buildings all the time to make new ones

It's called progress

Shut up, slut!

Gonzo 05-15-2013 04:21 PM

This is it... The final sign of the apocalypse.

Locusts? Check
Super Aids? Check
Alex Smith? Check
Belizian Back-hoes? Check

Get your spam and machetes ready, here come the Mayan Zombies.

Johnny Vegas 05-15-2013 04:25 PM

traffic jams will be a thing of the past.

Bwana 05-15-2013 04:31 PM

I was reading about this earlier. Someone is going to be in deep shit.

Fish 05-15-2013 04:44 PM

Now there's Noh Mul temple...

Frazod 05-15-2013 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts (Post 9684938)
What a bunch of short sighted ****ing reeruns.

I can only hope the douchebags who similarly tore down much of the Coliseum have spent the intervening centuries roasting in hell.

seclark 05-15-2013 06:08 PM

bad deal.
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