J3FF3R00 Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57584279/bulldozers-destroy-mayan-pyramid-in-belize/ In this image released by Jaime Awe, head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology on Monday May 13, 2013, a backhoe claws away at the sloping sides of the Nohmul complex, one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids on May 10, 2013 in northern Belize. Belize City - A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday. The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial center dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico. "It's a feeling of Incredible disbelief because of the ignorance and the insensitivity ... they were using this for road fill," Awe said. "It's like being punched in the stomach, it's just so horrendous." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 you liberals always complaining about old shit getting knocked down. last time I checked the Mayans haven't been wealth generators for a thousand years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted May 15, 2013 Author Share Posted May 15, 2013 Depends on your definition of wealth, doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 wealth- something lazy welfare leeches refuse to gain by their own toil and sweat. ok I gotta stop being sarcastic. this is pretty ridiculous, especially considering the apparent obviousness of the building compared to the terrain it inhabits. hopefully this company gets fucked over promptly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skotosa Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 you liberals always complaining about old shit getting knocked down. last time I checked the Mayans haven't been wealth generators for a thousand years. Yes lets smash every old relic, like the Acropolis, crystal skulls, fossils, who needs old things right? They don't generate wealth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 i have derailed this topic and truly become what I hate most. I apologize Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I love it when old shit dies, like how the Taliban rocked Buddha on some religious ignorance: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frankie5fingers Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I dont know whats worse, the fact that they destroyed a massive piece of history or the fact that they did it deliberately just for a fucking road. this shit makes me sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 retarded... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 omg Daft Punk buddha!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadameChaos Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Hmm it was just a little one. But FFS! "Police in Belize are investigating and criminal charges may be brought against the construction firm." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepex Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Little one or not! This is a very reasonable point:"Just to realize that the ancient Maya acquired all this building material to erect these buildings, using nothing more than stone tools and quarried the stone, and carried this material on their heads, using tump lines," said Awe. "To think that today we have modern equipment, that you can go and excavate in a quarry anywhere, but that this company would completely disregard that and completely destroyed this building. Why can't these people just go and quarry somewhere that has no cultural significance? It's mind-boggling."Seriously.... what the fuck humanity!? Can we please just get it together. Pleeease? Nothing is sacred anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Atom Dowry Firth Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 crystal skulls You know those things are fake, right? That pyramid was probably a fake too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chartnok Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 stupidity seems limitless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 fake, you say? http://www.cnwinenews.com/pic/201110/21/20111021171246260.jpg[\img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skotosa Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 crystal skulls You know those things are fake, right? That pyramid was probably a fake too Some be fake yea. Some be rlz. Mayan's wrote about 13 of them and HP tested one, had some pretty interesting properties and was entirely made out of silicon. The Japanese are just now managing to make a silicon cube to be an "indestructible" storage device that can with stand extremely high temperatures. The skull may already be such a device. Problem is, how are we going to read the data that is on it, we don't have the technology yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Atom Dowry Firth Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Norman Hammond, an emeritus professor of archaeology at Boston University who worked on Belizean research projects in the 1980s, wrote in an email that "bulldozing Maya mounds for road fill is an endemic problem in Belize (the whole of the San Estevan centre has gone, both of the major pyramids at Louisville, other structures at Nohmul, many smaller sites), but this sounds like the biggest yet". This is just so unbelievably sad. Fuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I can't even belize this shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Terrible. Human is fuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I can't even belize this shit It seems that despite the terribleness of what transpired at least it inspired a high point in usage of the english language in a thread on little ol watmm. bravo ;-] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Foil Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Makes me hate everything about everything even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triachus Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Makes me hate everything about everything even more. Interests:being a positive person Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpentintollwut Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Ironically, the Mayans themselves probably wouldn't have hesitated knocking down and harvesting the structures of some even more ancient culture to build their temples with. Still, this is sick and stupid and a couple hundred years of archeology should have taught even the dumbest construction company how wrong this is ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadameChaos Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I can't even belize this shit Oh hohohoho! I can't belize I didn't think of this joke first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted May 15, 2013 Author Share Posted May 15, 2013 I can't even belize this shit Oh hohohoho! I can't belize I didn't think of this joke first. Massive lol! I'm changing my topic description, thanks to you, Baph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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