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Mayan Code Leads to Gold ?, A 300 Million Dollar Treasure ?| Dudester |
Posted: Mar 2 2011, 05:52 AM
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Led by Joachim Rittsteig, an expert in Mayan writing, a group of scientists and journalists left Germany Tuesday, on a mission to Guatemala in search of a lost Maya treasure allegedly submerged under Lake Izabal.
According to the German newspaper Bild, which sponsored the expedition, the expedition includes two reporters from the publication, a photographer, a television camera, and a professional diver who will submerge into Lake Izabal in an attempt to find eight tons of gold said to have been lost there. The expedition is led by Joachim Rittsteig, an expert in Mayan writing, who claims to have cracked the famous Dresden Codex and discovered specific information in one of its chapters that leads to a treasure in Lake Izabal. "The Dresden Codex leads to a giant treasure of eight tons of pure gold," said Rittsteig, who has spent more than 40 years studying the document, to Bild. A professor emeritus at Dresden University and author of various publications about the Maya culture, Rittsteig stressed that "page 52 talks about the Maya capital of Atlan, which was ruined by an earthquake on October 30th in the year 666 BC. In this city, they kept 2,156 gold tablets on which the Maya recorded their laws." A sculpted serpent head juts over from the Platform of Venus at the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza, Mexico with the main pyramid, El Castillo, or The Castle in the background, June 2006. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto) The treasure sank, along with the city, into the waters of Lake Izabal, located in eastern Guatemala. But the German academic claims to have found the remains thanks to radar images taken in the area. |
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| Sean Ellis |
Posted: Mar 2 2011, 06:38 AM
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Cool. Thanks for sharing this.
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| tonym5 |
Posted: Mar 2 2011, 03:23 PM
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 Philosopher, Pirate, Poet, Poseidon & The Admiral  Group: CCForum admin Posts: 13,795 Member No.: 23 Joined: 24-February 04 |
Gold!!?!!
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| Mikedadski |
Posted: Mar 3 2011, 05:07 AM
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
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| CCFanJean |
Posted: Mar 16 2011, 04:23 AM
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What an exciting real life adventure to keep tract of. I hope they find it. If it's filmed, then surely NatGeo will feature it at some point. |
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| DirkPitt |
Posted: Mar 16 2011, 03:38 PM
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There's a city down there too? WOW
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| Antipodean Andy |
Posted: Mar 18 2011, 09:35 AM
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Where's Kurt Austin when you need him?
Interesting to note the city is called Atlan...  |
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