Parts of That 'Lost Maya City' Might Actually Be a Marijuana Grow-Op
In a story that keeps on getting weirder, a scientist familiar with the Mexican region where a Canadian teen claims to have discovered a lost Maya settlement says at least one of these features is either an abandoned cornfield—or a marijuana operation.
Ever since we and other outlets published the story yesterday about a Canadian teen, William Gadoury, who used star maps to triangulate the position of a lost Maya city, a number of experts have claimed it’s anything but. Consensus is that these rectangular green features—which were observed in satellite images—are actually relic milpas, or abandoned corn fields. Trouble is, none of the experts we talked to actually visited the site, leaving the true identity of these objects a mystery.
We’ve now heard from an anthropologist from the University of California San Diego’s Mesoamerican Archaeology Laboratory who’s actually seen this area with his own eyes. “We’ve visited them,...
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