This is pretty fascinating. This city complex was rather large with tons of pryamids. Estimated that when inhabited about 500,000 lived there. The largest pyramid on Earth is not in Egypt, it is in Guatemala.


Laser Scans Reveal 60,000 Previously Unknown Maya Structures Hidden in Guatemalan Jungle!
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-his...den-021817




Almost all of it is still covered by the forest. They guy who discovered all of this Dr. Richard Hanson.

Can you imagine the amount of knowledge that was lost when Alexandria was destroyed ?

(08-03-2018 12:21 PM)thespiritof1976 Wrote:  Can you imagine the amount of knowledge that was lost when Alexandria was destroyed ?

Nope I really can't.

nice find. i spent a few days at tikal. blown away by that country

(08-03-2018 12:54 PM)Lush Wrote:  nice find. i spent a few days at tikal. blown away by that country

Nice. Where did you stay? Hotels and such.

(08-03-2018 01:14 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(08-03-2018 12:54 PM)Lush Wrote:  nice find. i spent a few days at tikal. blown away by that country

Nice. Where did you stay? Hotels and such.

at tikal we camped in the park. they have a nice restaurant on the grounds. never hearing a howler monkey before, i felt so helpless. such a terrifying sound. and then you meet them and you're all, i ain't scared of you. i'll be honest, i've never traveled like i did in guatemala. we went to visit my girlfriend at the time's former travel friend. she lived in guatemala city. she lived in this compound owned by guatemalan boyfriend who just won guatemala's man of the year. he was a professor of architecture at the university. he was on winter break so he drove us around showering us with gringo hotspots. one night we slept at the general's hacienda with attached coffee plantation, and servants! the general was his uncle or something. we played euchre in the general's game room. there were a lot of cockroaches but we didn't mind. i won't ever be able to recreate that experience. just sitting in the back of his truck smoking cigarettes while he took us places

(08-03-2018 02:51 PM)Lush Wrote:  

(08-03-2018 01:14 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(08-03-2018 12:54 PM)Lush Wrote:  nice find. i spent a few days at tikal. blown away by that country

Nice. Where did you stay? Hotels and such.

at tikal we camped in the park. they have a nice restaurant on the grounds. never hearing a howler monkey before, i felt so helpless. such a terrifying sound. and then you meet them and you're all, i ain't scared of you. i'll be honest, i've never traveled like i did in guatemala. we went to visit my girlfriend at the time's former travel friend. she lived in guatemala city. she lived in this compound owned by guatemalan boyfriend who just won guatemala's man of the year. he was a professor of architecture at the university. he was on winter break so he drove us around showering us with gringo hotspots. one night we slept at the general's hacienda with attached coffee plantation, and servants! the general was his uncle or something. we played euchre in the general's game room. there were a lot of cockroaches but we didn't mind. i won't ever be able to recreate that experience. just sitting in the back of his truck smoking cigarettes while he took us places

Nice story Lush. You got connected with the right people.

I personally climbed this one.

(08-03-2018 04:34 PM)TechRocks Wrote:  I personally climbed this one.

(08-03-2018 12:21 PM)thespiritof1976 Wrote:  Can you imagine the amount of knowledge that was lost when Alexandria was destroyed ?

And when the Turks sacked constantinople

(08-03-2018 04:08 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(08-03-2018 02:51 PM)Lush Wrote:  

(08-03-2018 01:14 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(08-03-2018 12:54 PM)Lush Wrote:  nice find. i spent a few days at tikal. blown away by that country

Nice. Where did you stay? Hotels and such.

at tikal we camped in the park. they have a nice restaurant on the grounds. never hearing a howler monkey before, i felt so helpless. such a terrifying sound. and then you meet them and you're all, i ain't scared of you. i'll be honest, i've never traveled like i did in guatemala. we went to visit my girlfriend at the time's former travel friend. she lived in guatemala city. she lived in this compound owned by guatemalan boyfriend who just won guatemala's man of the year. he was a professor of architecture at the university. he was on winter break so he drove us around showering us with gringo hotspots. one night we slept at the general's hacienda with attached coffee plantation, and servants! the general was his uncle or something. we played euchre in the general's game room. there were a lot of cockroaches but we didn't mind. i won't ever be able to recreate that experience. just sitting in the back of his truck smoking cigarettes while he took us places

Nice story Lush. You got connected with the right people.

We got attacked by some of those monkeys when hiking nearby. They started
throwing stuff at us from the tops of trees

(08-03-2018 06:03 PM)bullet Wrote:  We got attacked by some of those monkeys when hiking nearby. They started
throwing stuff at us from the tops of trees

Those left wing monkeys are all the same.