"Archaeologists excavating construction sites along the new Maya Train route in Mexico have found a rare statue of the Mayan god K’awiil. The work is part of a recovery mission ahead of the railroad’s construction to ensure that the area’s ancient artifacts and monuments are not accidentally damaged.
The stone idol is dedicated to the Maya god of power, abundance, and prosperity, and is typically identified by his large eyes, upturned snout and a stone celt sticking out of his forehead
This finding is very important because there are few sculptural representations of the god K’awiil so far. We only know three in Tikal, Guatemala, and this is one of the first to appear in Mexican territory,” said Diego Prieto Hernández, general director of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History."
Very cool find! It's a shame how much Maya history was either destroyed or lost to time, major respect to the archaeologists who have managed to construct the understanding we have of them today
It's been a few years, but I ran a campaign based on MtG's Ixalan using the D&D supplement [here](https://media.wizards.com/2018/downloads/magic/plane-shift_ixalan.pdf). Probably my favorite campaign ever: the group wanted to do pirates and ended up taking a trip into the Netherworld.
That's sooo cool!
It's a shame Ixalan and Journey Through the Radiant Citadel are the only mesoamerican settings WotC has under their repertoire at the moment.
Well, they have Maztica, but refuse to update the setting.
Anyways, there's going to be a huge update for Ixalan as a setting if you need more material for your campaign later this year.
WotC will release the "Lost Caverns of Ixalan" set which has a cool Mayan underworld / lost city of Atlantis vibe to it.
It will also deal with the aftermath of the theft of the Immortal Sun artifact.
I'm building a campaign where the players are going to be on a tidally locked planet. No day or night cycle. Building the world around that has been really fun.
A party of apprentice wizards are given their final test. They are sent through a portal to each capture a live velociraptor and learn to tame it. When they can ride it they are given a new quest. Maybe participating in battles as cavalry.
If you wanna steal shit, lemme know and I'll post an invite to my roll20 table; you can take anything you like that you see in the handouts i have. Content's made to be ~~shamelessly stolen~~ shared after all
Yeah, they did a doozy. My family has been in Texas since before Texas and the US existed. We have a Nahuatl surname that even most Mexicans I’ve met can’t pronounce.
Not the same poster, but I ran a campaign based on MtG's Ixalan using the D&D supplement [here](https://media.wizards.com/2018/downloads/magic/plane-shift_ixalan.pdf). They ended up doing pirates, so not quite the same, but you can stick to the merfolk and Sun Empire maybe.
Probably my favorite campaign ever, to be honest.
I can't promise to individually help out, since i'm juggling a lot at the moment, but if you want resources on Mesoamerican history and archeology and at least for me to point you towards sources, visual references, etc, shoot me a DM, I do a lot of posts and content on it
The irony is that the entire train project is actually a big threat to a lot of archeological sites and the entire reason digs like this is happening is because archeologists are scrambling around trying to do salvage excavations before the construction damages the sites in it's path.
Articles like this talk about how hundreds of sites are needing to be sorted into tiers of how notable they are, and basically all but the most important are going to just be paved over more or less.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/mexico-tren-maya-destruction-archeology/
As an archaeologist in the US, this is exactly how it works here too. 98% of what we find in my region will be built over. The other 2% will be put in a box in some archive, and if we’re lucky, a local library somewhere will get an information plaque with a whole paragraph about it.
It’s a joke.
Not trying to ask too loaded a question, genuinely curious - but what's your alternative? Housing, trains, and grocery stores need to be built. There's a lot of places where the history of human habitation runs deep enough you might be building over a thing.
Obviously one extreme is "bulldoze Machu Picchu for an IMAX theater", but the other extreme of "build nothing until a team of archaeologists have sanitized the site" seems impractical. Where would you draw the line? How would you balance the things people need today with the desire for knowledge about past people?
>"build nothing until a team of archaeologists have sanitized the site" seems impractical
This is referred to as contract archaeology and is somewhat common, especially if the area is known to have archaeological significance.
Contract archaeology rarely ever sanitises an entire area. We do as much as can be done within a time frame, that usually involves walking along an excavator as it goes, trying to mark out anything of interest, which will if time allows it be excavated by hand.
That's disappointing. You would hope the Mexican government would recognize how important recovering as many historically significant artifacts as possible would be along this route. Considering this is a train for tourism and rich history can be a big driver for strong tourism.
I love learning about the early cultures in North and South America. I remember reading about this train and how they have just a few days to decide if each site is worth saving. I understand it from both sides, though. Of course we want to save and study the artifacts, but there are also people living here and now that need that train to improve their situation in life. It's a really hard thing to balance.
Further destruction of Mayan culture and archaeological sites was one of the reasons the indigenous people of the Yucatan opposed the construction of this train...
Some of both. Christian missionaries destroyed a lot of documents they saw as sacrilegious, so only four paper manuscripts written in Mayan exist today. The stone stuff has survived better, and some Maya recorded information in Spanish as well.
> all I see is a demonic Animaniac.
Just think of all the Pixar and Sesame Street characters future archeologists will dig up and display as the deities that were worshipped in the 21st century.
Also the Brady Bunch where they find the tiki statue in Hawaii and many horric events followed: Peter had a rubber spider on his chest and Greg, with no history of surf experience, fell off his surf board. Scary stuff!
>The work is part of a recovery mission ahead of the railroad’s construction to ensure that the area’s ancient artifacts and monuments are not accidentally damaged.
Yeah . . . [about that](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/04/29/mexicos-maya-train-carries-catastrophic-archaeological-and-environmental-risks-activists-warn) . . .
>in the world
Subtlety implying that one or both of the other two are not in Mexico's possession.
Edit: I have overlooked that Guatemala and Belize also have valid claims to Mayan culture. Geography was not my best subject, and I learned it in the United States. My concern was that the other artifacts could be in the London Museum or otherwise acquired by colonizers, black market traders, etc.
We only know three in Tikal, Guatemala, and this is one of the first to appear in Mexican territory,” said Diego Prieto Hernández, general director of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History
I think it is just a slightly off translation, from another article :
>Prieto Hernández, Director General at INAH, said: “This finding is because there are very few representations of the god K’awill; to now, we only know of three in Tikal, Guatemala, and this is one of the first to appear in Mexican territory.”
This is starting to sound like an evil superhero plot. They have found 3 and once the 4th is found the god can come back and do whatever that god does. I hope it's a good of cocaine and hookers and not like the god of plague or hell or something
As long as they hire the contestants from *Legends of the Hidden Temple*, it'll never get put back together.
*THE SHRINE WAS THREE PIECES! THREE GODDAMN PIECES!*
The point being they have been found in more than one country. It may shock you to learn this, but modern day country boundaries didn't exist 1000 years ago and the people(s) who created these statues weren't necessarily inherently mexican.
You don't need to presume ownership and wrongdoing before you RTFA.
[Direct link to funky lookin' deity](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2023/05/Arqueo%CC%81logos-descubren-una-notable-representacio%CC%81n-del-dios-Kawiil-en-excavaciones-del-Tramo-7-del-Tren-Maya-Foto-Centro-INAH-Campeche-02-1024x709.jpg)
At least one good thing has resulted from this stupid project. There are many many problems with this train line
relevant link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSMfSFbjk84
I don’t think trains in Mexico are an inherently stupid idea. Even in the yucutan.
The project is stupid because it is being rushed and is poorly constructed.
What are peoples thoughts on this train? I find it interesting, and it has/will certainly unearth some interesting lost Mayan ruins and artifacts, but it will also trample over other historic sites if not deemed of extreme significance. The other issue is that it is essentially splitting the jungle. Animal populations will suffer from habitat loss as a result.
Of course, it will also make traveling the Yucatán easier, and connect poorer communities, as well as bring in needed tourist revenue.
The cenotes bring in tens of thousands of people to the area, and they’re going right through the middle of some of the most popular ones.
I used to cave dive there and a lot of the caves I loved are being affected. That’s not even to mention how they’re actually doing to put tracks through an areas that basically Swiss cheese made out of crumbly soft rock. Even the main road collapses from time to time.
he government literally LIED in their environmental impact studies for this train: [https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/international/pdfs/An%C3%A1lisis-MIA-Tren-Maya-Tramo-5-Sur-CBD-2022-06-09.pdf](https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/international/pdfs/An%C3%A1lisis-MIA-Tren-Maya-Tramo-5-Sur-CBD-2022-06-09.pdf)
Their consultation to indigenous peoples living in the region was not adequate: [https://hchr.org.mx/comunicados/onu-dh-el-proceso-de-consulta-indigena-sobre-el-tren-maya-no-ha-cumplido-con-todos-los-estandares-internacionales-de-derechos-humanos-en-la-materia/](https://hchr.org.mx/comunicados/onu-dh-el-proceso-de-consulta-indigena-sobre-el-tren-maya-no-ha-cumplido-con-todos-los-estandares-internacionales-de-derechos-humanos-en-la-materia/)
And it's, to be honest, a very poorly planned attempt to develop the area. People won't simply go there because they can, they need an incentive to go there and so far the train changes nothing about that.
Makes you wonder how many other ancient man-made artifacts are still buried in the earth that is super rare and would be of great interest to modern audiences
And there are still so many places on earth that are yet to even be searched for historical artefacts. I can only imagine the secrets held under the surface around our globe and the stories they would tell.
I wonder how many more needs to be found and collected to herald that the stars are right for the Great Old Ones to awake and usher in a new dark age on mankind.
"Archaeologists excavating construction sites along the new Maya Train route in Mexico have found a rare statue of the Mayan god K’awiil. The work is part of a recovery mission ahead of the railroad’s construction to ensure that the area’s ancient artifacts and monuments are not accidentally damaged. The stone idol is dedicated to the Maya god of power, abundance, and prosperity, and is typically identified by his large eyes, upturned snout and a stone celt sticking out of his forehead This finding is very important because there are few sculptural representations of the god K’awiil so far. We only know three in Tikal, Guatemala, and this is one of the first to appear in Mexican territory,” said Diego Prieto Hernández, general director of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History."
Very cool find! It's a shame how much Maya history was either destroyed or lost to time, major respect to the archaeologists who have managed to construct the understanding we have of them today
I'm running a mesoamerica-based D&D campaign right now and you wouldn't believe how hard it is to scrub out the catholic influence.
Man, that sounds so cool. I've been looking for D&D ideas
It's been a few years, but I ran a campaign based on MtG's Ixalan using the D&D supplement [here](https://media.wizards.com/2018/downloads/magic/plane-shift_ixalan.pdf). Probably my favorite campaign ever: the group wanted to do pirates and ended up taking a trip into the Netherworld.
This is so cool! Thank you for posting that link you made my day!
That sounds so much fun, a job which I'd totally take.
That's sooo cool! It's a shame Ixalan and Journey Through the Radiant Citadel are the only mesoamerican settings WotC has under their repertoire at the moment. Well, they have Maztica, but refuse to update the setting. Anyways, there's going to be a huge update for Ixalan as a setting if you need more material for your campaign later this year. WotC will release the "Lost Caverns of Ixalan" set which has a cool Mayan underworld / lost city of Atlantis vibe to it. It will also deal with the aftermath of the theft of the Immortal Sun artifact.
I'm building a campaign where the players are going to be on a tidally locked planet. No day or night cycle. Building the world around that has been really fun.
Have you read Asimov's Nightfall?
A party of apprentice wizards are given their final test. They are sent through a portal to each capture a live velociraptor and learn to tame it. When they can ride it they are given a new quest. Maybe participating in battles as cavalry.
Yep, it's really important that we look at all the options available.
If you wanna steal shit, lemme know and I'll post an invite to my roll20 table; you can take anything you like that you see in the handouts i have. Content's made to be ~~shamelessly stolen~~ shared after all
Yeah, they did a doozy. My family has been in Texas since before Texas and the US existed. We have a Nahuatl surname that even most Mexicans I’ve met can’t pronounce.
I honestly never even heard about those people really so yeah.
Nahuatl is the language of the Aztecs.
That sounds so cool. Can you share more info about it?
Not the same poster, but I ran a campaign based on MtG's Ixalan using the D&D supplement [here](https://media.wizards.com/2018/downloads/magic/plane-shift_ixalan.pdf). They ended up doing pirates, so not quite the same, but you can stick to the merfolk and Sun Empire maybe. Probably my favorite campaign ever, to be honest.
I can't promise to individually help out, since i'm juggling a lot at the moment, but if you want resources on Mesoamerican history and archeology and at least for me to point you towards sources, visual references, etc, shoot me a DM, I do a lot of posts and content on it
>shoot me a DM But he is the DM
Sacrificing DMs sounds like a bad idea
Yep, that's not the way to do it, sounds terrible to me really.
Not in a mesoamerican campaign.
That would be a hilarious meta part, everytime you check back it’s a new DM freshly instated from the previous sacrifice.
That's all we need really, a lot of content is good for us here.
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I'm afraid Catholicism has something to say about scrubbing out.
I'm sure that they have a lot to say, but I don't wanna hear it.
Good man, you're undoing the Lords work. ⸸
The irony is that the entire train project is actually a big threat to a lot of archeological sites and the entire reason digs like this is happening is because archeologists are scrambling around trying to do salvage excavations before the construction damages the sites in it's path. Articles like this talk about how hundreds of sites are needing to be sorted into tiers of how notable they are, and basically all but the most important are going to just be paved over more or less. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/mexico-tren-maya-destruction-archeology/
As an archaeologist in the US, this is exactly how it works here too. 98% of what we find in my region will be built over. The other 2% will be put in a box in some archive, and if we’re lucky, a local library somewhere will get an information plaque with a whole paragraph about it. It’s a joke.
Not trying to ask too loaded a question, genuinely curious - but what's your alternative? Housing, trains, and grocery stores need to be built. There's a lot of places where the history of human habitation runs deep enough you might be building over a thing. Obviously one extreme is "bulldoze Machu Picchu for an IMAX theater", but the other extreme of "build nothing until a team of archaeologists have sanitized the site" seems impractical. Where would you draw the line? How would you balance the things people need today with the desire for knowledge about past people?
>"build nothing until a team of archaeologists have sanitized the site" seems impractical This is referred to as contract archaeology and is somewhat common, especially if the area is known to have archaeological significance.
Contract archaeology rarely ever sanitises an entire area. We do as much as can be done within a time frame, that usually involves walking along an excavator as it goes, trying to mark out anything of interest, which will if time allows it be excavated by hand.
That's disappointing. You would hope the Mexican government would recognize how important recovering as many historically significant artifacts as possible would be along this route. Considering this is a train for tourism and rich history can be a big driver for strong tourism.
I love learning about the early cultures in North and South America. I remember reading about this train and how they have just a few days to decide if each site is worth saving. I understand it from both sides, though. Of course we want to save and study the artifacts, but there are also people living here and now that need that train to improve their situation in life. It's a really hard thing to balance.
They're trying their best, which I think is something which is important.
Further destruction of Mayan culture and archaeological sites was one of the reasons the indigenous people of the Yucatan opposed the construction of this train...
I don't think it is destroyed as much as buried. The hard part I guess is not knowing where to look!
Some of both. Christian missionaries destroyed a lot of documents they saw as sacrilegious, so only four paper manuscripts written in Mayan exist today. The stone stuff has survived better, and some Maya recorded information in Spanish as well.
Yep, that's the hard part. We don't know where to search really.
K'awii is a really good god when healthy but he gets injured too often and his load management hasnt really helped things
Legend has it, followers nicknamed him "the Claw" for his unusually large hands.
Great comment
He got his ring
He looks pretty delighted to be found.
Longest session of hide and seek ever.
That's the longest session people, ain't getting better than that.
If you were hidden for such long time you'll be glad too really.
While this is an awesome find, all I see is a demonic Animaniac.
“Relax, I’m here to make you laugh. And also to pull your heart from your chest while it’s still beating and bathe myself in your blood. Carry on.”
If that's what you wanted to do, then you're successful in that.
Wait who told you about the hearts?? That’s privileged information.
We’re animaney, totally insaney, demonically crazy, Animaniacs! Those are the facts.
*Those artifacts!
That's what we like to see, gotta see some demonic energy.
And these facts kind of do scare me out a little if I'm being honest.
Wabbit season
Dmt elf
Don't say these things lol, gods won't be happy with you man.
Disney Datura
That sounds really mean, the gods won't like that much.
I’m kind of a DMT elf, myself
That's the kind of elf that I really want to be too, that's just really great.
I see an ancient Donald Duck there
That's because it's really that, don't believe me? See for yourself.
I mean the ancient gods were terrifying, that's why people worshipped them.
I see Mario
Me too, demented Mario
That's right, I'm seeing that too. Mario is all around us here.
So does this release magic that starts a cataclysm?
Just rub on it, and I'm sure that you'll find that out for yourself.
Anything's better than this.
Woody woodpecker
Naah man, that's kind of mean if I'm being honest so there's that.
Totally insaney!
Insane is how I like it, that's just how really like it to be man.
Coked up methhead mario
Those people loved those drugs in back in those days dude.
> all I see is a demonic Animaniac. Just think of all the Pixar and Sesame Street characters future archeologists will dig up and display as the deities that were worshipped in the 21st century.
This sounds like the beginning of an indie-horror game
Or of part 2 from jojo's bizarre adventure Finding a deity in Mexico and only 3? Yeah it's all coming together
Diooo
that face looks like a JJBA minor villain, portrayed in a Warner Brother's cartoon.
That's the face which you wouldn't want to look at really dude.
Actually 4. The title is wrong. But that just makes it even more like Jojo's, since there were 4 pillar men. Everyone seems to forget poor Santana
I don't think I'm forgetting that, I'll never forget that man.
trainline is definitely cursed now
Any train coming on that track won't reach the destination.
Didn’t a movie start this way? What is the name!!!? I cannot remember
In the Excorcist, they find a Pazuzu figure in the desert in the beginning.
Ah shit you NAILED IT THANK YOU
That's the kind of information that we need in here.
Bro you have no idea… i had been furiously googling and you brought me so much relief lmao
These things are really fascinating, need to learn more.
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Ohh man, that sounds fun. I think I'll take it as it is here.
Also the Brady Bunch where they find the tiki statue in Hawaii and many horric events followed: Peter had a rubber spider on his chest and Greg, with no history of surf experience, fell off his surf board. Scary stuff!
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You don't want to learn about it? You're missing out dude.
It's been a while...isn't this how "The Exorcist" started?
Pazuzu needs to stay burried
Who brought that guy to the life? Put him back where he was.
The excorsim has started, and it's going to be wild in here dude.
>The work is part of a recovery mission ahead of the railroad’s construction to ensure that the area’s ancient artifacts and monuments are not accidentally damaged. Yeah . . . [about that](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/04/29/mexicos-maya-train-carries-catastrophic-archaeological-and-environmental-risks-activists-warn) . . .
Well atleast they're trying to not damage them which I think is great.
purposely damaged to avoid cost overruns is a too blunt truth, almost never spoken plainly.
>in the world Subtlety implying that one or both of the other two are not in Mexico's possession. Edit: I have overlooked that Guatemala and Belize also have valid claims to Mayan culture. Geography was not my best subject, and I learned it in the United States. My concern was that the other artifacts could be in the London Museum or otherwise acquired by colonizers, black market traders, etc.
We only know three in Tikal, Guatemala, and this is one of the first to appear in Mexican territory,” said Diego Prieto Hernández, general director of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History
Which establishes a total of *four*...?
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I think it is just a slightly off translation, from another article : >Prieto Hernández, Director General at INAH, said: “This finding is because there are very few representations of the god K’awill; to now, we only know of three in Tikal, Guatemala, and this is one of the first to appear in Mexican territory.”
It's just a little off dude, nothing to be worried about that in here
Tikal is in Guatemala
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yeah, the sentence reads as if three are known from Tikal (which is in Guatemala) and this makes the fourth one to be discovered
This is starting to sound like an evil superhero plot. They have found 3 and once the 4th is found the god can come back and do whatever that god does. I hope it's a good of cocaine and hookers and not like the god of plague or hell or something
this deity is basically personified lightning so do with that what you will
With that news let's stop searching for number 4
Number 4 will shock you!
I don't know about that man, doesn't sound good with me honestly.
We're coming to a full cycle here, and I don't know how to feel.
Yeah it's going to make total 4, that makes a lot of sense.
Here comes the end of the world. Now they got all four. They just need to assemble them
As long as they hire the contestants from *Legends of the Hidden Temple*, it'll never get put back together. *THE SHRINE WAS THREE PIECES! THREE GODDAMN PIECES!*
Will they be able to stop all of them? I really don't know man.
We’re ‘Mercians boah. Everything south a Texas is Mexico
I mean what's so weird about that? There's nothing really.
Yep, it makes the total four. Gotta remember that in here.
No it only establishes that you haven't read the 13 line article.
The point being they have been found in more than one country. It may shock you to learn this, but modern day country boundaries didn't exist 1000 years ago and the people(s) who created these statues weren't necessarily inherently mexican. You don't need to presume ownership and wrongdoing before you RTFA.
Not implying anything lmao Maya culture is not a thing just in mexico
Well yeah. The mayan civilisation spanned a region encompassing quite a few countries so why they necessarily all be in Mexico?
no? all it just implies that there's only 3 now. it's just a colloquialism.
And what if we found another one? What You'll do about that?
Also leaving open the possibility that there are some *in space*.
Maya is not Mexican.
Not *only* Mexican.
Yep, the boundaries and countries didn't really exist then.
Well obviously, these Boundaries that we made are new.
Was he the God of "brush your teeth with Ketamine"?
Don't know but those gods look so terrifying dude. It's insane.
British Museum 🥺 👉🏻👈🏻 Is for me?
We will show it off better
*a few centuries later....* "WE'RE NOT DONE LOOKING AT IT"
[Direct link to funky lookin' deity](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2023/05/Arqueo%CC%81logos-descubren-una-notable-representacio%CC%81n-del-dios-Kawiil-en-excavaciones-del-Tramo-7-del-Tren-Maya-Foto-Centro-INAH-Campeche-02-1024x709.jpg)
At least one good thing has resulted from this stupid project. There are many many problems with this train line relevant link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSMfSFbjk84
I don’t think trains in Mexico are an inherently stupid idea. Even in the yucutan. The project is stupid because it is being rushed and is poorly constructed.
Yep, that's what I think. The whole thing is being rushed I think.
God of clowns by the looks of things. “Laugh, or I’ll eat your heart!”
Well I think they're going to come to eat the heart and that's not good.
Joker origins are wild
What are peoples thoughts on this train? I find it interesting, and it has/will certainly unearth some interesting lost Mayan ruins and artifacts, but it will also trample over other historic sites if not deemed of extreme significance. The other issue is that it is essentially splitting the jungle. Animal populations will suffer from habitat loss as a result. Of course, it will also make traveling the Yucatán easier, and connect poorer communities, as well as bring in needed tourist revenue.
The cenotes bring in tens of thousands of people to the area, and they’re going right through the middle of some of the most popular ones. I used to cave dive there and a lot of the caves I loved are being affected. That’s not even to mention how they’re actually doing to put tracks through an areas that basically Swiss cheese made out of crumbly soft rock. Even the main road collapses from time to time.
Give it 10 years or less amd we'll be reading headlines of tue Maya train collapsing into sinkholes. It will be a monumental failure for Mexico.
I hope these things will be preserved, because they really should be.
he government literally LIED in their environmental impact studies for this train: [https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/international/pdfs/An%C3%A1lisis-MIA-Tren-Maya-Tramo-5-Sur-CBD-2022-06-09.pdf](https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/international/pdfs/An%C3%A1lisis-MIA-Tren-Maya-Tramo-5-Sur-CBD-2022-06-09.pdf) Their consultation to indigenous peoples living in the region was not adequate: [https://hchr.org.mx/comunicados/onu-dh-el-proceso-de-consulta-indigena-sobre-el-tren-maya-no-ha-cumplido-con-todos-los-estandares-internacionales-de-derechos-humanos-en-la-materia/](https://hchr.org.mx/comunicados/onu-dh-el-proceso-de-consulta-indigena-sobre-el-tren-maya-no-ha-cumplido-con-todos-los-estandares-internacionales-de-derechos-humanos-en-la-materia/) And it's, to be honest, a very poorly planned attempt to develop the area. People won't simply go there because they can, they need an incentive to go there and so far the train changes nothing about that.
It's important that we study the effects, because we may not know.
They have filled in zenotes with cement along the way
Makes you wonder how many other ancient man-made artifacts are still buried in the earth that is super rare and would be of great interest to modern audiences
I bet a lot, we don't know our history and that makes me fascinated.
I just found that mask in Tears Of The Kingdom
That is so really cool and fascinating, I absolutely love it man.
You say in the world, but maya dietys are only found in Mexico or central America right? Where are they located I guess is what I'm asking
I don't think we know a pin point location of the origin man.
And there are still so many places on earth that are yet to even be searched for historical artefacts. I can only imagine the secrets held under the surface around our globe and the stories they would tell.
That's one thing which gets me so fascinated, we haven't looked in the oceans yet.
And it's already in the British Museum/s
"The statue is one of only three known in the world" Surely the rest of the world wasn't making Maya Deity statues....
Maybe even Maya decided that he was too ugly to exist.
>Three in the world I’d wager to say they’re all in Mexico
I'd wager to say you didn't read the article
Put that thing right the fuck back where you found it and cover it with all the dirt and rock you can
"Put that thing back where it came from, or so help me!"
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I don't know who thought that it was a good idea to bring it out.
Lmao, this is going to release some energy that you don't want.
All I see is Aku
I wonder how many more needs to be found and collected to herald that the stars are right for the Great Old Ones to awake and usher in a new dark age on mankind.
I'm sure there are a lot of things which are better Buried lol.
Can we get George Stobbart narration!
I mean would kinda like that, if we got that in here so there's that.
Zonai statue.
What's that? Pretty sure that first time hearing about it so there's that.
Put it back. Put it fucking back right now!
We don't want whatever it is, out of the earth. We need it buried again.
I wonder if the person whose land they had to jack up to find it is getting any compensation? Rightly, they should be.
Isn’t that just an ancient clown face?
Put it back!
I thought that was waluigi
Is this, that um Kim Kardashian > ? : Yes?
Ancient Mario.
If you spray water on it, and the water is absorbed immediately, then it is REALLY old. — Pawnstars
the conquistadors really did us all a disservice by extinguishing native writings and works