Mexico discovered 2,000-year-old palace foundation

Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced on September 1 to discover the foundation and trace of a palace dating back 2,000 years at the Ayutla Archaeological Site in Ocoxingo district, Chiapas state, southern Mexico.

Speaking to reporters in the Mexican capital, Dr. Luis Alberto Martos Lopez, Head of the Ayutla Archaeological Project, said after the first excavation, the researchers found that the palace foundation consists of many steps, floating on it. many walls up to 1m thick around the rooms with rounded corners, a characteristic architectural feature of Mayan civilization existed from 2000 BC to 1,546 AD.

According to architect Lopez, the exhibits reveal that this work was built at least 50 years BC, equivalent to the pre-Ancient period of Mayan civilization, and this is an ancient architectural work. most are discovered in the upper catchment area of ​​the Usumacinta river.

Previously in the same area, scientists have found many chinaware products dating back to a century earlier than this palace.

Based on these and many previous artifacts, Mexican historians initially thought that this could be a type of City-State in Mayan culture and this palace could The transition zone between the Bonampak regions with Yaxchilán is located on the upper reaches of the Usumacinta river, where at least two empires have been allied and mutually exclusive to compete for dominance.

INAH plans to continue excavating and studying this archaeological site and is planning to introduce it to domestic and international tourism in 2012.