<story><title>Ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ancient-maya-city-discovered-mexican-jungle-2023-06-21/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>el_nahual</author><text>Not as much as you&amp;#x27;d think! In many places in the yucatan peninsula topsoil is only a few inches deep; it&amp;#x27;s not rare to see &lt;i&gt;no&lt;/i&gt; topsoil at all! The limestone bedrock is exposed to air.&lt;p&gt;Most mayan ruins have vast sections that are un-execavated, and you can just &lt;i&gt;see&lt;/i&gt; the shape of walls&amp;#x2F;buildings&amp;#x2F;roads under the plants and foliage.&lt;p&gt;In the words of Fray Diego de Landa, a spanish bishop (and monster) that was in charge of the church in Yucatan in the 16th century:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Yucatán es una tierra la de menos tierra que yo he visto&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&amp;quot;Yucatán is a land with the least amount of land I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen&amp;quot;, where in spanish &amp;quot;tierra&amp;quot; means both &amp;quot;land&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;dirt&amp;#x2F;soil&amp;quot;)</text></item><item><author>UberFly</author><text>I often reflect on the massive amount of stuff that is constantly falling out of the trees on my property, and then wonder just how deep places like this must be buried with a jungle growing on top of them for 1000 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elpakal</author><text>I remember flying over some parts of Chiapas as a young boy thinking for sure that every mound or hill was an undiscovered temple of some kind, waiting for someone to stumble on. There’s a lot of uncovered magic there, a lot
like all of the wild dinosaur bones being accidentally found in the construction debris of booming humanity.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ancient-maya-city-discovered-mexican-jungle-2023-06-21/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>el_nahual</author><text>Not as much as you&amp;#x27;d think! In many places in the yucatan peninsula topsoil is only a few inches deep; it&amp;#x27;s not rare to see &lt;i&gt;no&lt;/i&gt; topsoil at all! The limestone bedrock is exposed to air.&lt;p&gt;Most mayan ruins have vast sections that are un-execavated, and you can just &lt;i&gt;see&lt;/i&gt; the shape of walls&amp;#x2F;buildings&amp;#x2F;roads under the plants and foliage.&lt;p&gt;In the words of Fray Diego de Landa, a spanish bishop (and monster) that was in charge of the church in Yucatan in the 16th century:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Yucatán es una tierra la de menos tierra que yo he visto&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&amp;quot;Yucatán is a land with the least amount of land I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen&amp;quot;, where in spanish &amp;quot;tierra&amp;quot; means both &amp;quot;land&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;dirt&amp;#x2F;soil&amp;quot;)</text></item><item><author>UberFly</author><text>I often reflect on the massive amount of stuff that is constantly falling out of the trees on my property, and then wonder just how deep places like this must be buried with a jungle growing on top of them for 1000 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bedobi</author><text>&amp;gt; Yucatán es una tierra la de menos tierra que yo he visto&lt;p&gt;complete side note but is that what he would have said verbatim or a rendition in modern Spanish? super curious</text></comment>