Discovered ancient pyramid in Mexico (Egypt, events, Mayan, historical)

[ontheroad]

I am always fascinated when new discoveries are made that help us place civilisations into greater context. Here's a recent discovery of a pyramid in Mexico that will undoubtedly establish an earlier culture than previously known.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071228/sc_nm/mexico_pyramid_dc (broken link)

Any thoughts on this discovery and how it might affect the growing body of information of the continent's earlier history?

[MoreDudley]

nice discovery, but nothing startling. Mexico city was built upon Aztec/Mayan ruins. This pyramid, being 800 years old, is not ancient by historical standards. older civilizations like the Olmecs have already been established in meso-america 3000 years ago. but still relatively modern compared to Sumeria and Egypt.

[_redbird_]

It may not qaualify as a startling discovery to some, Moredudley, but all discoveries are interesting to me. I don't get into the academic one-upmanship thing.

Even a buffalo cliff jump site from 500 years ago is interesting to me and yes I know there are even more ancinet archeological digs in Israel, and meso-america, and so on.

If the pyramid is only 800 years old, that fact in itself is interesting.

[ontheroad]

I'm so glad you, redbird4848, found this interesting.

Here's an article you might enjoy about the earliest known civilisation in the Americas (Peru).

I feel so grateful I was able to visit Mexico, Peru and Bolivia, and see some of the architecture and early civilisations.

I also was astounded by the ancient cities within our own shores in NM, AZ and elsewhere among the Native People. One day I was staring off into the distance in one of the Hopi villages, and it looked as if I were looking at the sea, and not cregs of rock. My companion, a rather learned person, said, "once it was the sea." All I could do was smile with the sense of knowing that what I saw with my eyes might have been what I saw with other inner eyes.

Originally Posted by redbird4848

It may not qaualify as a startling discovery to some, Moredudley, but all discoveries are interesting to me. I don't get into the academic one-upmanship thing.

Even a buffalo cliff jump site from 500 years ago is interesting to me and yes I know there are even more ancinet archeological digs in Israel, and meso-america, and so on.

If the pyramid is only 800 years old, that fact in itself is interesting.

[_redbird_]

That's a good article. I like the way the article ends with the author surmising (and I am paraphrasing) that the culture could have arose in that particular fashion when someone may have realized that irrigation is not that difficult.

On the absence of pottery, that is strange. I always say that when it comes to archeology there is so much that hasn't been uncovered we are always missing parts of the puzzle.

Makes you wonder what life was like back then.

OTR, I also like to use my inner eye to sense things. Especially when it comes to the ancient past.

I remember working for a museum once and I would literally spend hours pouring over the vast collections that held in storage~ out of the public eye~ and let me tell you, it was fantastic. We had mammath tusks and giant tortoises and tons of stone tools. That was way cool.

[ontheroad]

It always makes me wonder how did people live, and survive. Standing in places like Machu Pichu, for example, I saw how they designed the simplest, but most sophisticated engineering for terraced gardening, or the way they were able to design sun dials. Yet, we don't know what means they used to calculate time or space, nor has anyone developed a theory for the People's disappearance.

Originally Posted by redbird4848

That's a good article. I like the way the article ends with the author surmising (and I am paraphrasing) that the culture could have arose in that particular fashion when someone may have realized that irrigation is not that difficult.

On the absence of pottery, that is strange. I always say that when it comes to archeology there is so much that hasn't been uncovered we are always missing parts of the puzzle.

Makes you wonder what life was like back then.

I do believe we are probably more capable of accessing that inner eye than we may realise.

OTR, I also like to use my inner eye to sense things. Especially when it comes to the ancient past.

How wonderful it must have been to work among the antiques of a museum. I envy you that! I only get to visit them.

I remember working for a museum once and I would literally spend hours pouring over the vast collections that held in storage~ out of the public eye~ and let me tell you, it was fantastic. We had mammath tusks and giant tortoises and tons of stone tools. That was way cool.

[Tzaphkiel]

Originally Posted by redbird4848

I also like to use my inner eye to sense things. Especially when it comes to the ancient past.

One of the most intriguing scenarios I ever read was a woman whose elders trained her to see the different layers of events that had happened at a specific location at different periods of history. I would love to be able to do that!

[ontheroad]

Here's an updated article in National Geographic online:

Aztec Pyramid, Elite Graves Unearthed in Mexico City