Bulldozers destroy Mayan pyramid in Belize

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57584279/bulldozers-destroy-mayan-pyramid-in-belize/

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In this image released by Jaime Awe, head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology on Monday May 13, 2013, a backhoe claws away at the sloping sides of the Nohmul complex, one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids on May 10, 2013 in northern Belize.

 

 

Belize City - A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday.

 

The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial center dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.

 

"It's a feeling of Incredible disbelief because of the ignorance and the insensitivity ... they were using this for road fill," Awe said. "It's like being punched in the stomach, it's just so horrendous."

 

you liberals always complaining about old shit getting knocked down.

last time I checked the Mayans haven't been wealth generators for a thousand years.

Depends on your definition of wealth, doesn't it?

wealth- something lazy welfare leeches refuse to gain by their own toil and sweat.

ok I gotta stop being sarcastic.

this is pretty ridiculous, especially considering the apparent obviousness of the building compared to the terrain it inhabits. hopefully this company gets fucked over promptly.

  On 5/15/2013 at 6:53 AM, SR4 said:

you liberals always complaining about old shit getting knocked down.

 

last time I checked the Mayans haven't been wealth generators for a thousand years.

Yes lets smash every old relic, like the Acropolis, crystal skulls, fossils, who needs old things right? They don't generate wealth.

i have derailed this topic and truly become what I hate most. I apologize

I love it when old shit dies, like how the Taliban rocked Buddha on some religious ignorance:

I dont know whats worse, the fact that they destroyed a massive piece of history or the fact that they did it deliberately just for a fucking road. this shit makes me sick.

retarded...

omg Daft Punk buddha!!!

Hmm it was just a little one.

But FFS!

"Police in Belize are investigating and criminal charges may be brought against the construction firm."

Little one or not! This is a very reasonable point:

"Just to realize that the ancient Maya acquired all this building material to erect these buildings, using nothing more than stone tools and quarried the stone, and carried this material on their heads, using tump lines," said Awe. "To think that today we have modern equipment, that you can go and excavate in a quarry anywhere, but that this company would completely disregard that and completely destroyed this building. Why can't these people just go and quarry somewhere that has no cultural significance? It's mind-boggling."

Seriously.... what the fuck humanity!? Can we please just get it together. Pleeease? Nothing is sacred anymore...

  On 5/15/2013 at 7:09 AM, ZiggomaticV17 said:

crystal skulls

You know those things are fake, right? That pyramid was probably a fake too

stupidity seems limitless

fake, you say?

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  On 5/15/2013 at 11:07 AM, Timothy Forward said:

 

  On 5/15/2013 at 7:09 AM, ZiggomaticV17 said:

crystal skulls

 

You know those things are fake, right? That pyramid was probably a fake too

 

Some be fake yea. Some be rlz. Mayan's wrote about 13 of them and HP tested one, had some pretty interesting properties and was entirely made out of silicon. The Japanese are just now managing to make a silicon cube to be an "indestructible" storage device that can with stand extremely high temperatures. The skull may already be such a device. Problem is, how are we going to read the data that is on it, we don't have the technology yet.

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Norman Hammond, an emeritus professor of archaeology at Boston University who worked on Belizean research projects in the 1980s, wrote in an email that "bulldozing Maya mounds for road fill is an endemic problem in Belize (the whole of the San Estevan centre has gone, both of the major pyramids at Louisville, other structures at Nohmul, many smaller sites), but this sounds like the biggest yet".

This is just so unbelievably sad. Fuck

I can't even belize this shit

Terrible. Human is fuck.

  On 5/15/2013 at 11:26 AM, baph said:

I can't even belize this shit

It seems that despite the terribleness of what transpired at least it inspired a high point in usage of the english language in a thread on little ol watmm.

bravo ;-]

Makes me hate everything about everything even more.

  On 5/15/2013 at 11:45 AM, Friendly Foil said:

Makes me hate everything about everything even more.

Interests:being a positive person

Ironically, the Mayans themselves probably wouldn't have hesitated knocking down and harvesting the structures of some even more ancient culture to build their temples with.

Still, this is sick and stupid and a couple hundred years of archeology should have taught even the dumbest construction company how wrong this is ...

  On 5/15/2013 at 11:26 AM, baph said:

I can't even belize this shit

Oh hohohoho!

I can't belize I didn't think of this joke first.

  On 5/15/2013 at 1:45 PM, MadameChaos said:

 

  On 5/15/2013 at 11:26 AM, baph said:

I can't even belize this shit

 

Oh hohohoho!

 

I can't belize I didn't think of this joke first.

 

Massive lol! I'm changing my topic description, thanks to you, Baph