Ancient Mayan pyramid destroyed for road fill
Wow. Just...wow.
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That's a shame. Them people are going be cursed hope it's not the end of the world as we know it.
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BlackBob?
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What a bunch of short sighted ****ing reeruns.
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Hey, that road was important!
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The Mayans were only off by about 5 months. Pretty impressive.
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We demolish buildings all the time to make new ones
It's called progress |
Progress you can Belize in!
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This is it... The final sign of the apocalypse.
Locusts? Check Super Aids? Check Alex Smith? Check Belizian Back-hoes? Check Get your spam and machetes ready, here come the Mayan Zombies. |
traffic jams will be a thing of the past.
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I was reading about this earlier. Someone is going to be in deep shit.
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Now there's Noh Mul temple...
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bad deal.
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I honeymooned in Belize and viseted the Mayan ruins in the southern part of the country. ..unbelievable they would do that. Belize is a pretty poor country though, and tourism is a big part of their economy. .doesn't make since to do this.
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Ehh. Pyramids are overated. They should tear down those in Egypt also. What good does a giant triangle serve anyway ?
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Have you ever read how many mummies from Egypt were ground up to make patent medicines and stuff in the 19th century? It's amazing.
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Good for them.
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Dkdasdfacac is mayan for no1curr
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that's pretty shitty.
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Could make for haunted roads. Bad Karma.
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Maybe the Mayan calendar was only predicting the end of this pyramid and not the end of the world? :shrug:
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That is horrendous.
What would you say of this was the only option they had? For example, not blowing the pyramid means extra commute of 2 hours for villagers which could be cut to 15 minutes with a new road. Posted via Mobile Device |
Don't care. Those commuters will live, retire, and die, and the pyramid will still stand (or rather, would have still stood). It's their culture, and their history, and their entire identity, and those buffoons didn't care one bit about that.
I'd like to say that the Belizean government will come down on them like a hammer, imprison their foremen, fire all of the workers, throw their backhoes into the Gulf of Mexico, annihilate their business, and run their aspiring politician CEO creep out of the country in disgrace. I have a feeling, though, that won't happen. Oh, and this story left out the part about the construction company goon that ran reporters off with a machete. That's a nice touch. |
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Not the first time they have this.
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Probably public shaming of prophecies that didn't come to pass, ah well.
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Don't know why all these tree-huggers are getting pissed, it's just a pile of rocks.
Not even trees |
I'm assuming that this pyramid was not discovered last year.
Yeah they shouldn't have done it, but what I'm wondering, is why haven't archeologists ever gotten around to studying the site, searching for artifacts, etc. before now? |
Not to say that we shouldn't do everything possible to preserve ancient sites like this.. But this site wasn't exactly a "Temple" like most people would imagine when thinking of that. It was just a mound of rocks. No secret rooms, and no elaborate structures. There wasn't really anything else to be learned from this site. No further study was really necessary. So preserving this would have been just for historic sentimental purposes.
http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/7797/nohmul10008.jpg http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/7273/nohmul20002.jpg |
You could make the same argument about the Great Pyramid in Egypt too, though. "Historic sentiment" is also known as culture and identity, which is why it's illegal to bulldoze pre-Hispanic structures in Belize, even if they're on private property, as this one was.
Also, see that hole in the rock, near the top? That was a secret room. |
You're really comparing this to the Great Pyramid?
Cause that doesn't work..... |
They probably would have built a more impressive structure if they had a better road nearby.
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You know they built the Superdome in New Orleans on top of an old cemetery.
They even moved the bodies before they started construction. See what it did to the Saints for 43 years? |
[QUOTE=Fish;9686519]Not to say that we shouldn't do everything possible to preserve ancient sites like this.. But this site wasn't exactly a "Temple" like most people would imagine when thinking of that. It was just a mound of rocks. No secret rooms, and no elaborate structures. There wasn't really anything else to be learned from this site. No further study was really necessary. So preserving this would have been just for historic sentimental purposes.
Tear that piece of shit DOWN. |
This was done in Ancient rome too - I remember seeing the places in the marble pillars where they would cut into it and some half standing ruins / structures
History repeating |
well, they weren't using it.
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Based on those pics Fish posted, I'd say they ****ed up no matter what. Even if it were no longer culturally significant and offered no more knowledge to be attained, there isn't a ****ing thing on either side of that pyramid. Seems to me they could have easy made the road a football field in either direction and saved the site.
I didn't read the article so maybe I missed something. |
This is El Jefe's fault. He was stealing rocks to build his custom house he's been yammering on about.
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Maybe they will find a bunch of gold buried beneath it.
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Eh, the Yucatan is pretty well covered with tens of thousands of structures like this. While I wouldn't advocate tearing them all down, I don't see that the current inhabitants need to preserve every single one of them til the end of time, either. I wouldn't have demolished it, but I'm not really outraged over it, either.
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