[nathancahill]

You could literally throw a dart at a map of the Yucatan/Northern Central America and it would land on an "Ancient Mayan city". I grew up there, and our house was built on top of Maya ruins, we'd find hundreds of ruins in the surrounding mountains. We used to dig up full ceramic bowls and a ton of obsidian in the garden.

The hype around this kid is amazing.

[Kukulkan]

I'm Mexican and i can confirm this. The south is full of "undiscovered" pyramids. There are in certain regions tons of fake mountains. And even in mexico city you just need to digg a little bit in certain places to find artifacts and art. There is just not enough funding in archeology, and once "discovered" its expensive to take care of them. Which is a shame really because there are tons of things we dont know about this civilizations. Precolombian history is full of speculations.

[abandonliberty]

I thought the main expense was maintenance after unearthing, as deterioration accelerates?

[azernik]

Like Roman stuff in the Middle East. It's interesting when something pops up that's particularly well preserved, but that they were here is not a particular surprise.

[sspiff]

Or Roman stuff in Europe, though often ruins in the ME are better preserved because they got covered in sand (and IS did not find them yet).