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  • The great Maya "white road" that connected the cities of Coba and Yaxuna

    08/02/2020 2:06:54 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 35 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | May/June 2020 | Jason Urbanus
    The great Maya "white road" that connected the cities of Coba and Yaxuna was an incredible feat of engineering. Built around A.D. 700, the 26-foot-wide road paved in white plaster extended more than 60 miles across the Yucatan Peninsula. Much of this route is today shrouded in thick vegetation, but a new lidar survey has provided researchers with high-quality images of the busy road's path. Using these images, they have detected many lost villages and more than 8,000 hidden structures that once lined the route.
  • Chinese company hands over first consignment of refrigerators

    03/20/2006 10:44:12 PM PST · by CAWats · 11 replies · 449+ views
    Granma.cu ^ | March 15, 2006
    The ceremony was attended by Ricardo Cabrisas, government minister, and Major of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, president of the Cuba Electronics Group. Also present were Alberto Rodríguez Arufe, Cuban ambassador to China, businesspeople and officials from the Cuban embassy in Beijing. Haier was represented by Zhou Yun Jie, vice president of that corporation, the largest manufacturer of Chinese electro-domestic items and one of the most important enterprises in the world in the sector; other senior executives; officials and workers. After the handover the refrigerators in this initial consignment were transported in trucks to the port to be shipped to...