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Great Blue Hole off Belize yields new clues to fall of Mayan civilisation

• Belize • Blog • cenotes • Chichen Itza • chultunes • Discoveries • drought • Great Blue Hole • Mayans • Science • sinkhole • Tulum • Uncategorized • Yucatan

Research supports theory that drought and climate conditions reduced Mayans from a regional power to survivors abandoning cities to virtual extinction. A massive underwater sinkhole surrounded by reefs, caves and sharks has provided archaeologists with clues in the mystery of the fall of the Mayan civilization, according to new research. Scientists from Rice University and […]

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Subterranean river discovered beneath Mexico’s Chichen Itza ruins

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Subterranean river discovered beneath Mexico’s Chichen Itza ruins

Scientists reveal cavity 20 metres below the pyramid of Kukulkan, also known as El Castillo. Experts have discovered that the main pyramid at Mexico’s Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza...

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