Between the 1960s and 1980s especially, many locals turned to looting the ruins of numerous ancient Maya cities that were lost in the remote jungle, undiscovered by archaeologists, and selling the looted artworks they dug up to unscrupulous art dealers from the US in particular.
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The beautiful highland Guatemalan town of Sacapulas is home to a remarkable and unique survival of an ancient cultural tradition.
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Repainted in vivid colours, the former school buses are then bought by private operators who run them profitably throughout Guatemala as much-loved public buses
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Many historical artists were very fanciful in their depictions of ancient buildings, but Catherwood was famously accurate, using a so-called ‘Camera Lucida’ to capture the exact details of the buildings and guide his drawings.
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Scientists in the PACUNAM project responsible for these recent discoveries believe that the ancient Maya population may have been as much as 10 times larger than experts previously imagined.
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