Mayan Pyramid bulldozed to make gravel for a road. PM demands prosecutions.
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[url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/15/world/americas/belize-mayan-pyramid-destroyed/index.html]CNN[/url]
[quote](CNN) -- The deputy prime minister of Belize is calling for full prosecution of those responsible for destroying a [b]2,300-year-old Mayan pyramid to turn it into rock for roads.[/b]
"All those found responsible for the destruction of this site should be persecuted to the full extent of the law," read a statement from the office of Gaspar Vega, who is also the representative for the Orange Walk area in northern Belize where the Noh Mul pyramid was destroyed last week.
Only a small chunk of the pyramid, which stood about 65 feet tall and was the center of a settlement of about 40,000 people in 250 B.C., remains after backhoes and bulldozers began removing the limestone slabs with which it was built last week. The pyramid stood on private land.[/quote]
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looks like shit.
Egyptians > mayans
don't bulldoze that pyramid bro, come on.
[QUOTE=sYnced;40660294]looks like shit.
Egyptians > mayans[/QUOTE]
Well yeah it looks like shit
It's been bulldozed
[QUOTE=sYnced;40660294]looks like shit.
Egyptians > mayans[/QUOTE]
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Welp so much for preserving history. Hopefully everything there was to discover in that place was already discovered, or else its secrets will be lost to history forever.
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sorry mayans i love u
And now the ancient Mayan curse is upon us all!
hope the mayans took out insurance
[quote]"All those found responsible for the destruction of this site should be persecuted to the full extent of the law."[/quote]
I assume this also includes everyone who neglected to put up any sort of signage or inform the workers of what was around there?
I don't blame the workers, they were doing their jobs. It looked like a mound of rocks and nothing else, nobody told them what it was.
I hope they don't get punished, because it's not their fault they didn't know. That is someone else's failure.
Damn, that's really sad. I think there's an incredibly vast amount of knowledge and information that we can learn from studying these ancient wonders, I mean especially a pyramid, come on, that's awesome, how are you going to order someone to straight up bulldoze it?
I didn't read entirely but is this definitely the only place the road could of fit? I just keep imagining a road meandering around a pyramid and getting to view it as you drive-by, that'd be pretty cool...
-snip being a retard-
[QUOTE=Cruma;40660821]Damn, that's really sad. I think there's an incredibly vast amount of knowledge and information that we can learn from studying these ancient wonders,[/QUOTE]
Not really, theyre just taking up precious urbanization real estate
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good on them i say
out with the old in with the new as my rich road tycoon grandfather always said
Revenge for 2012 predictions!
No but really, what the hell. You just destroyed an ancient temple for a road. What the fuck?!
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I'm now imagining an ordinary bulldozer pushing along the edge of this beast and the driver going "Come on, fall together you shit"
These people destroy their rain forest and now their own ancient monuments all for the sake of modernization without thinking of their own future. How short sighted are they in terms of development.
Just a note, the pyramid may be stood on private land but if they could at least respect the monument by not destroying it.
Imagine being the bulldozer driver doing that. Realizing you're destroying a piece of history.
I sure as hell wouldn't want to do that, I would've refused.
