Thanks Fractal Trader. Looks like a good one for the weekly Digest ping as well.
Containing over 300 ancient hieroglyphic texts so far identified, the Toniná pyramid has been classified as one of Mexico's most significant historic land marks.
Posted on 05/06/2016 7:31:17 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
Researchers have confirmed that the Mayan pyramid excavated at the Acropolis of Toniná, Chiapas is one the largest pyramids ever discovered. Discovered in 2010, Emiliano Gallaga and his team began their excavation under the impression that the pyramid was built on the top of a hill. It was not until recently that they’ve managed to fully assess it and truly see what they’re working with.
Wighing in at 75-meters tall with seven distinct districts all with their own purpose – such as Temples, palaces, markets, housing, administration – the magnitude of the Toniná pyramid compares even to that of the Tlachihualtepetl (artifical mountain) pyramid of Cholula, Puebla, roughly 70 meters in height. Researchers have hopes that further translation of the hieroglyphics may uncover the reasons as to why the Mayan civilization collapsed in this region. Containing over 300 ancient hieroglyphic texts so far identified, the Toniná pyramid has been classified as one of Mexico’s most significant historic land marks.
“It’s a big surprise to see that the pyramid was done almost entirely by pre-Hispanic architects and therefore is more artificial than natural… it was believed that the entire structure was a natural hill, but recent evidence has revealed that the structure was almost entirely built by ancient inhabitants.” said Gallaga
(Excerpt) Read more at mysteriousearth.net ...
Perhaps because they started eating each other?
I love that guy and I don’t think any of the things he and the other contributors claim in regard to extra terrestrials is really out of the realm of possibility.
The bigger his hair gets, the more I like him!
The systems have different constructions, but they are both “hieroglyphs” due to the religious association. Egyptian hieroglyphs have phonetic content as well as some ideographic use. All writing systems convey phonetic information, according to Dr. Zender (see below).
I am presently listening to “Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernity,” by Professor Marc Zender of Tulane U. (in the car) and “Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed,” by Professor Edwin Barnhart of the University of Texas (in the kitchen). Both reference the Coe book, which wasn’t at the library today but certainly will be when I go back next Tuesday.
I would hate to be an on air news reader doing this story cold.
Could have been built by the Olmec and re-purposed by the feckless Mayans ...
Containing over 300 ancient hieroglyphic texts so far identified, the Toniná pyramid has been classified as one of Mexico's most significant historic land marks.
bump!
I’ll say it. It was a good thing the Spanish annihilated the Mayans.
Awestruck! Once again, thanks for the ping. :o])
Before the internet, people had a lot of time on their hands.
Amazing
About 25 years ago we went through the one in Cholula. It was really cool. It had several layers of pyramids build on top of each other. The tunnels by the archeologists throughout the structure exposed all sorts of very nice jaguar motifs (among others). The archeologists started their tunnel at the top through the floor of the abandoned Spanish church. Apparently, the Spanish realized there was a pyramid structure there and built a church on top (as they were wont to do).
One of my cousins married an archaeologist-a Paleo-Indian expert who showed my husband and I lots of sites, and even let us work on some digs-so at the risk of spoiling the notion of noble Spaniards-my ancestors, unfortunately-engaging in bloody, righteous extermination of evil heathens-it was not the slaughter or the disease that pretty much wiped most of those Native Americans in Mexico and points south off the map, although the survivors either decamped with haste, or ended up as indentured servants or slaves-it was more subtle and not so bloody...
Unlike the American colonies immigrants, most of the early immigrants from Spain were single men-soldiers mostly, looking for adventure and a new place. They were encouraged by the Spanish colonial government to take native women as wives and concubines-being regular guys, they did-after a few hundred years the ethnic lines got really blurred, so most people were mestizos-still are. The tribal identities got pretty much lost, so you don’t meet many people who can say they are Maya, Chichimec, Aztec, etc.
Tribal warfare, overcrowding and cyclical drought/crop failure were already taking a harsh toll on the Native population before the Spanish arrived, and cities were being abandoned-the Spanish were nasty, brutal people too, but they were not responsible for the wholesale fall of Native culture.
Just about every culture in every country worldwide has practiced human sacrifice and cannibalism at some point in their history-even in the Balkans, England, the Middle East, etc-we were all savages at one time...
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/bingo
He...knows...all.
Thank you-I find it amusing that the havoc caused by that climate change is never discussed by most of academia...
There is a mini-series-”La Esclava Blanca” being shown on Telemundo right now on weeknights at 8PM that will show you how brutal the Spaniards STILL were in the mid-19th century-at least in Colombia. Check it out-I think you will like the way they have stayed with the real version of history-no frills or whitewash. I don’t know if you speak Spanish or not-there are no English subtitles..
It is filmed in Colombia, produced by Caracol-it is the first time I’ve ever seen a series of theirs air before 9PM or later-their stuff is always raw, graphic and realistic with the sex, language and violence, and un-PC-intended for an adult audience. I think this one is a bit too graphic for prime time, too but that is just me.
The story is about a young Spanish woman in Colombia in the mid 1800’s whose parents are murdered for their land when she is a baby, but the slaves her father freed hide her from her enemies, who want to finish off the whole family. She later gets to Spain, then returns under a bogus identity-that of a marquessa-to get revenge on her enemies, reclaim her inheritance and adopted family-that is where it is as of today, if you want to take a peek-really shows the Spaniards as bloody and terrible to Natives, Blacks, and even each other...
Reminds me of an old time travel tourism story. The disgruntled narrator was complaining about what a scam the Minotaur/labyrinth tours was; and especially what a waste the “insurance” she bought from the tour guide was.
No harder than carrying 200 pounds of horse feathers.
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