Maya city

Archaeologists have confirmed that Aguada Fénix, the largest and oldest known Maya monument, was designed as a massive cosmogram representing the Maya conception of the universe. New excavations at the site in southeastern Mexico have uncovered a spectacular cross-shaped pit containing the earliest known directional color symbols in Mesoamerica, along with an extensive network of canals and causeways that form a landscape-scale map of cosmic order. The groundbreaking findings, now published in Science Advances, challenge long-held assumptions about early Maya civilization and reveal that monumental architecture of unprecedented scale could be built without centralized authority or prominent social hierarchies. Oldest And Largest Pre-Maya Sacred Site Discovered In Mexico Lasers Map Mysteries of the Maya Calendar, Centuries Older than Previously Thought