Breaking the 2,300-year pyramid took stone as a road

The 'ignorant' construction company destroyed one of the largest and 2,300-year-old Mayan-era pyramids in Belize to take the stone as a new road.

Construction workers use bulldozers to destroy the pyramid made of macadam, 40.48m high and part of the Nohmul complex - the most important area of ​​the Mayan people in Northern Belize. This work is here at least 2,300 years old.

Archaeologists are very angry when it comes to the idea that the construction contractor may have mistaken the ancient Mayan architecture on a hill. It is a beautiful natural landscape located in the extremely famous Nohmul complex.

A company that built the Mayan 2,300-year-old pyramid for stone making.

Head of Belize National Archaeological Institute Jaime Awe said the destruction at the Nohmul complex in Northern Belize was discovered late last week, bordering the Mexican border.

'It is unimaginable that people can be so naive and emotionless as well as extremely ignorant when they burst into this ancient architecture to get materials for making sugar. I felt like someone kicked my stomach hard. It was too horrible , "said Mr. Awe.

However, he is also certain that some builders may not make the mistake of confusing the Mayan ruins into a mountain.

Archaeologists think that this company deliberately does it.They are ignorant and insensitive when mistaking it for a hill.

Construction workers use excavators and bulldozers to destroy the sides of the pyramid, leaving the core with boulders in the center. It seemed to be a narrow Mayan room dangling from an empty part of this building that had not been destroyed and now it was exposed.

Belizean police said they are conducting an investigation and will prosecute criminal construction companies that exploit the ancient pyramid of the Mayan people if that is necessary.

The Mayan Empire included all of the Yucatan Peninsula and is now Guatemala and Belize along with parts in Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador.

Although the Nohmul complex is on private land, Belizean law stipulates that all Hispanic monuments are under government protection.

This is not the first case of the ruins of Mayan people destroyed in Belize. The country has a population of about 350,000 and hundreds of such monuments are located in a large area surrounded by trees. Most of them are located in Nohmul complex.

It is known that ancient Mayan rivers on lands spread from southeastern Mexico and through Guatemala, Honduras and Belize.