He learned that if he projected the constellations onto a map of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, the shapes matched up perfectly with the locations of 117 Mayan cities.Īccording to the Journal De Montreal newspaper, the teen, surprisingly, was the first person to test such a theory.īut rather than stop there, Gadoury took his research a step further - examining one last constellation that contained three stars, with only two of them corresponding to known Mayan cities. In order to find the ancient settlement, Gadoury examined 22 Mayan constellations from the ancient Madrid Codex texts.
“There are enough items to suggest it could be a man-made structure.” The “Gran Jaguar” Mayan temple in Guatemala. “There are linear features that would suggest there is something underneath that big canopy,” Daniel De Lisle, of the Canadian Space Agency, told The Independent. Google Mapsĭubbed K’aak Chi - which means Fire Mouth - the forgotten city was found buried deep in the Yucatan jungle, hidden beneath the region’s dense vegetation. Scientists say this rectangular area in Mexico found by Gadoury is man-made because its linear features aren’t found in nature. “I was really surprised and excited when I realized that the most brilliant stars of the constellations matched the largest Maya cities,” Gadoury told the Journal de Montreal newspaper.
A Canadian teenager has discovered the remains of a lost Mayan city - without ever stepping foot in Mexico.Ĭombining his love for the night sky and a childhood fascination with the Mayan “doomsday” calendar, 15-year-old William Gadoury, of Quebec, used satellite imagery and star charts to uncover what is believed to be one of the largest Mayan settlements to ever have existed.
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