His name is William Gadoury he was fifteen, and it comes no more or less to discover the location of an ancient Mayan city. The achievement of this young Quebecers of the city of Saint-Jean-de-Matha is the admiration of the international scientific community. The Canadian Space Agency has also awarded him a medal, reports Le Journal de Montreal .
It all begins when the planet takes to interest in the Mayan calendar predicting the end of the world in 2012 . The teenager begins to get excited about civilization that dominated Central America from 2500 BC to the eighth century J.C. about. The Mayans are especially known for their mastery of writing, astronomy and sophisticated cities they built in the heart of the rainforest. It is the latter that William Gadoury has dedicated his work these past three years. A mystery retains the curiosity of Canadian:
“I do not understand why the Maya built their cities away from rivers, on marginal lands and in the mountains,” a-t- he told the local newspaper. “He had to have another reason, and as they worshiped the stars, the idea came to me to verify my hypothesis.”
When a Mayan codex meets Google Earth
He then gives an old Maya codices that evokes the 22 constellations known to this civilization of astronomers. On a map, he joined the stars together. It reproduces the network and forms a transparent and applies them to the Google Earth map of the Yucatan Peninsula, shared now Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. The conclusion is obvious to him the location of stars in the sky corresponds to those of Mayan cities on earth.
It does not stop there. In another reference book on the subject, it is the evocation of a twenty-third constellation. The diagram on again: two ancient cities reproduce the positions of stars. But William Gadoury notes that the constellation has three stars and a third locality is missing.
William Gadoury attend the excavations
It does not disassemble and explains its approach to the Canadian Space Agency. This then provides it with satellite images of the area from NASA and the Japanese agency JAXA. Satellite images taken in 2005 above the current Belize possible to perceive what appears to be the remains of a pyramid and thirty buildings. He named the city he comes from remote exhume: K’AAK ‘CHI’ or ‘fiery mouth “in French. Scientists estimate that besides K’AAK ‘CHI is not “any” Mayan city but one of the five most important. The work of William Gadoury also establishes that the largest cities built by the Mayas were related to the brightest stars.
However, no archaeological expedition has yet been initiated to verify the existence of “Fire Mouth” field. The reason is economical because these operations are very expensive. But scientists have promised William Gadoury he would be present during searches.
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