A trip to penetrate the humid tropical forests of southeastern Mexico is what separates William Gadoury confirm or see discarded his discovery: a lost Mayan city.
the name of this Canadian 15 years turned the world for an investigation that points in the Yucatan peninsula there are remains of a Mayan settlement hitherto unknown.
for his discovery used tools like Google Earth and also images of RADARSAT-2 that provided the Canadian Space Agency (CSA, for its acronym in English ).
However, the conclusion reached by the young in a science project that featured a contest in Quebec has raised questions among archaeologists in Mexico.
And that , according to archaeologists and also recognizes William, in that puzzle missing the most important piece. go to the site to check for the city
the answer in the stars
in the draft, William part of the idea that “the Maya and other ancient civilizations established their major cities depending on the position stars in the constellations.”
“According to my calculations, the correlation between the position of the stars and these cities is above 95%,” he wrote.
With the help of publications such as the Madrid Codex, or Codex of Madrid, he realized that the position of the settlements of the Maya matched position the stars who knew at that prehispanic culture.
“i do not understand why the Maya built their cities far from the rivers, on marginal land and in the mountains,” said the young Canadian newspaper Le Journal de Québec .
“I was very surprised and excited when I realized that the brightest stars of the constellations coincided with the largest Mayan cities.”
But in one of the constellations in a position three stars there were only two known cities, leading William to mark a point on the map where should be the lost city.
Daniel de Lisle , CSA, helped locate the exact spot on the map, which is located about 40 kilometers from the Mayan city of Calakmul in southern Campeche state.
check
the experts consulted by BBC agree that, in any case, to take into account what says William is necessary to go to the place to verify the existence of the city.
Dr. Rafael Cobos, member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico and who gives lectures on Mayan archeology, believes that this is essential for the proposed William.
“If you really want to publicize the important finding, then the young man should go to the field and verify that indeed is his great find otherwise may be very badly, “Cobos said.
Since 2014, the archaeological site of Calakmul and tropical forests in the area were declared as” well mixed “on the World Heritage list of UNESCO, given its value cultural and natural.
and according Cobos, the area William said has been “extensive and extensively explored since the 1930s”.
“This peculiar proposal to explain the spatial distribution Mayan settlements has done on other occasions and has been strongly rejected by many Mexican and non-Mexican researchers. “added
doubts from Mexico
in Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) -the highest government agency in the subject- ruled out the theory of the lost Mayan city that made William.
” this information came out, we already consulted with specialists, archeologists, and is not grounded, archaeologically, “he told BBC World Ivonne Falcon, spokesman for the institution.
For the archaeologist Hector Hernandez, however, is not far-fetched the idea of the relationship cosmos-cities, but felt that still more research.
“We must also consider (as with archaeoastronomical phenomena) that there are cities everywhere and it is likely to coincide with a point X drawn on a map or related to astronomical charts,” said Hernandez.
the Maya had profound astronomical and mathematical knowledge, he told EFE Alejandro Farah, president of the astronomical Society of Mexico.
All the cities were built “nothing more by human caprice, but were contact with nature, both on earth and in heaven “said the academic.
Above all, said Farah, they were based” on the cycle of the year define the orientations of the buildings and size of cities “.
Suddenly famous
William began his research in 2014, when he won the first prize a contest of science in the province of Quebec.
His fascination with the Mayan world began two years earlier moment in the media predicting the Mayan calendar on the end of an era was discussed, 21 December 2012.
BBC World sought to William to interview him, but his mother, Josée Brison, replied that the moment will not provide statements, it must concentrate on their school exams.
The Young spoke to the local newspaper Le Journal de Québec , which said: “People facilitates me and me encouraged to continue my research, “.
” in the supermarket, someone told me I looked like two drops of water the young man who discovered a Mayan city. I said it was me. ”
After the news spread by media in America and Europe, Brison admits he has struggled to handle the popularity of your child.
Before his possible trip to the Mayan world in Mexico, William and is scheduled to visit the International Exhibition of Sciences to be held in Brazil in August 2017, where it plans to present the results of their research.
“it would be the culmination of my three years of work and the dream of my life, “William imagine.
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