Lost City Revealed
Though it’s long been known to locals that something — something big — is buried in this patch of Guatemalan rain forest, it’s only now that archaeologists are able to begin teasing out what exactly Head of Stone was.
Using GPS and electronic distance-measurement technology last year, the researchers plotted the locations and elevations of a seven-story-tall pyramid, an astronomical observatory, a ritual ball court, several stone residences, and other structures.
It’s stories like these that leave me feeling as though I’m in the wrong line of work - what I wouldn’t give to spend the next 6 years digging and carefully piecing together the lives of a lost civilization buried under several feet of jungle… so many secrets.
