Researchers Discover Incredible Mayan Monument
All of a sudden, they were eye to eye with a stone king.
Jacqueline Howard
Associate Science Editor, The Huffington Post
Archeologists happened upon a previously undiscovered but well-preserved Mayan stone monument while exploring Guatemala on a recent trip, they announced earlier this month.
"We gasped and looked in, and there's the face of a king just staring straight out at us," Luke Auld-Thomas, a graduate student at Tulane University in New Orleans, told National Geographic.
Auld-Thomas and colleagues found the monument, called a stela, in nearly pristine condition at the El Achiotal archeological site in Western Petén.
"It had been very carefully placed by the ancient Maya so that it was looking out a doorway, like a museum piece in a display case," Auld-Thomas said.
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