3D rendering of overhead view of ancient Mayan site

UT Researchers Discover Oldest, Largest Mayan Structure

  • Aug 24, 2020

Researchers at the UT Austin Soils and Geoarchaeology Lab and Environmental Hydrology and Water Quality Lab have made a remarkable discovery offering new insight into the formation of the Mayan civilization: a massive 3000-year old structure named Aguada Fénix.

Aguada Fénix is the earliest and largest known monumental structure built by the Maya and it challenges the existing narrative that the Maya civilization developed gradually. The team’s latest findings are detailed in Nature, the leading international weekly journal of science.

Read the full article from the College of Liberal Arts.

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