Media: schoolboy discovered “Mayan city” proved to be a field of hemp – RIA Novosti

13:16 12.05.2016

(updated: 13:55 12.05.2016 )

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MOSCOW, May 12 -. RIA Novosti The fact that the 15-year-old Canadian student William Gaduri took over “The lost city of the Maya”, it was hemp field, writes Wired magazine citing Jeffrey Brasvella, an archaeologist from California the University of San Diego.

according to the newspaper, Brasvell and his students are now working in the territory of the Mexican state of Yucatan near the place in the jungle, where, according to Canadian youths theory, should be the ancient city.

the archaeologist immediately recognized location on satellite imagery and declared that it stands out a rectangle – a field overgrown or hemp, or weeds. In yet another satellite image presented Gaduri the Canadian Space Agency, we can see the outlines of a dried-up swamp.

The expert also noted that a truly interesting from an archaeological point of view, the place is located to the south of the location, embodied in these pictures.

The information that the 15-year-old William Gaduri allegedly found on satellite imagery unknown Mayan city, appeared in the media earlier this week. The boy came to the conclusion that the representatives of the ancient civilization in the construction of cities guided by the constellations card.

After examining her, Gaduri found that one constellation of three stars “of the city is not enough.” Canadian Space Agency enthusiastically reacted to the boy’s theory, however, as noted by Wired, many experts considered it unscientific.

In particular, Anthony donors include the Avon, one of the founders arheastronomii, doubt that the Maya generally built cities for this principle. “Those Mayan constellations that we know of, except in the constellation Scorpio, in no way connected with the modern maps of the constellations”, – he said

Some, however, acknowledged that the first picture you can see something that looks like. erected by man design, while the second – something like a pyramid

it was assumed that research Gaduri be published in a scientific journal, and he will present them in the next year, the Brazilian international conference

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