{"id":108180,"date":"2020-06-04T09:44:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/largest-and-oldest-maya-monument-ever-found-discovered-under-mexico"},"modified":"2020-06-04T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:44:55","slug":"largest-and-oldest-maya-monument-ever-found-discovered-under-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/largest-and-oldest-maya-monument-ever-found-discovered-under-mexico","title":{"rendered":"Largest And Oldest Maya Monument Ever Found Discovered Under Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/largest-and-oldest-maya-monument-ever-found-discovered-under-mexico2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A giant, sprawling structure almost a mile long has been discovered at the southern tip of Mexico, with researchers saying it may represent the oldest and largest monument of the ancient Maya civilisation ever found.<\/p>\n<p>The site, called Aguada F\u00e9nix, is located in the state of Tabasco, at the base of the Gulf of Mexico. It\u2019s so vast for its age, the find is making archaeologists recalibrate their timelines on the architectural capabilities of the mysterious Maya.<\/p>\n<p>Before now, the Maya site of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seibal\">Ceibal<\/a> (aka Seibal) was thought to be the oldest ceremonial centre, dating back to around 950 BCE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A giant, sprawling structure almost a mile long has been discovered at the southern tip of Mexico, with researchers saying it may represent the oldest and largest monument of the ancient Maya civilisation ever found. The site, called Aguada F\u00e9nix, is located in the state of Tabasco, at the base of the Gulf of Mexico. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}