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The largest and oldest finds ever

With the latest technology as a tool, researchers have found what is described as the ’largest and oldest structure’, built by the ancient mayans. This writes

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The largest and oldest finds ever

With the latest technology as a tool, researchers have found what is described as the ’largest and oldest structure’, built by the ancient mayans.

This writes the news agency Reuters.

more specifically, it has been found a huge, rectangular platform. It is thought that it is built between 1000 and 800 years before our era in the mexican state of Tabasco.

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Here you can see the platform in 3D. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix/TAKESHI INOMATA

the Platform is supposed to have been used for large-scale rituals, and is made of soil and clay the opposite of how the maya later built with stone.

- It is likely that many people from the surrounding areas gathered there for special events, says archaeologist from the University of Arizona Taleshi Inomata, who has led the research project.

- the Rituals involved, probably recorded around and inside on the platform. People also laid the symbolic things such as jadeøkser in the middle of the platform.

It measures 400 meters in width, is 1400 meters long and has been ten to 15 metres above the ground.

today, some parts of the area where the platform is used for livestock production, while other parts are overgrown with forest.

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