This week’s news that archaeologists have discovered the long-lost city of Valeriana highlights one major part of Maya society: astronomical observatories.
More than 6,000 structures unveiled themselves to a team of archaeologists who looked through a 2013 ecological survey of Campeche, Mexico. This part of the Yucatán Peninsula is north of a highway where there’s been very little investigation until recently. Among the revelations is a special place of ceremony and Sun-watching.
