The Maya Controversy: Startling New Evidence for an Antediluvian People who Influenced the World.But, recent research has uncovered a startling discovery! Today we have only a rudimentary understanding of why these practices were maintained, which centered on seasonal planting, harvesting, etc. Noted pyramid complexes and buildings were constructed on the foundations and tops of existing architecture for the purpose of maintaining correct star constellation and energetic alignments. The Maya revered their history and sanctified earlier generations. But Le Plongeon may have been on to something that we can only appreciate today.Īncient Engineering: Star Constellations and Energy Alignments In the 1890s and well into the early 1900s, before the introduction of carbon-14 dating techniques scientists were establishing the backgrounds of early civilizations through comparative analysis and believed the Maya’s Formative period was the same as the Christian era, roughly 1500 BC. Most of the prominent archaeologists at the time immediately wrote off Le Plongeon and discounted his work as sheer foolery. A high-level Freemason who had traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and Egypt, Le Plongeon believed the Dynastic Egyptians were influenced by early Maya explorers and people from Atlantis and wrote extensively about his theories.Īugustus Le Plongeon and laborers stand by a collection of sculptures close to the main pyramid at Chichen Itza, (1875.) Photo from ‘A Dream of Maya’ by Lawrence Gustave Desmond (Via Author) Symbols and Hieroglyphs of Early CivilizationsĬurious about the Maya language, Augustus had local teachers instruct him in the Yucatan Maya language to aid his research in understanding the decorative symbols and hieroglyphs that covered a number of buildings and murals. These images would later inspire a number of noted scientists including Edward Thompson, an American archaeologist, who, with the support of the Carnegie Institution conducted the first extensive excavations and consolidations of the ancient city. Although dangerous, they traveled to Uxmal and later Chichen Itza, and produced some of the earliest photographs of the buildings in these areas.Īt Chichen Itza, Augustus had workers clear large portions of the central acropolis to better photograph the standing buildings. Before they could go anywhere, an armed escort had to be arranged for protection against bandits, Maya rebels, and the Yucatecan Militia who were fighting a Caste War which had destabilized the area for a number of years. The accomplished photographer and land surveyor, Augustus arrived in Mérida, Mexico (capital of Yucatan) in 1875, and together with his wife Alice made plans to visit a number of major Maya ruins. One of these explorers was Augustus Le Plongeon, a French American who, after reading the exploits of Stephens and Catherwood in Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, set out to explore Mexico and the Maya cities on the Yucatan Peninsula. In the late 1890s, as America was developing into an industrial heavyweight, its scientists and explorers were rediscovering Earth’s ancient past and charting forgotten civilizations around our planet.

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