Chapter 2444： Ruined civilization

Downstairs of the hotel, the security was extremely high, with Honduran military police with live ammunition everywhere, completely sealing off the area at the hotel entrance.

Numerous vehicles of the tripartite joint exploration team have parked one after another at the entrance of the hotel, waiting for the joint exploration team to come out.

Although this small town is very close to the ancient city of Copan, it doesn't take much time to walk there, but for safety reasons and to facilitate the transportation of a large amount of exploration equipment, the joint exploration team decided to go there by car.

Compared to when we arrived at Copanrenas two days ago, there are seven or eight all-terrain vehicles in this fleet, which looks very conspicuous.

In the later exploration, it is bound to enter the lush forests around the ancient city of Copan. By then, vehicles such as SUVs will be useless and can only be parked outside the forests.

The only ones that can really play a role and carry a lot of exploration equipment and various materials are these all-terrain vehicles with extremely strong passing ability.

Not long after the convoy arrived in front of the hotel, the three-party joint exploration team walked out of the hotel.

The first to appear was the Honduran military police responsible for protecting the joint exploratory team on the periphery, followed by the fully armed Matisse.

After confirming the safety outside, Ye Tian and David, as well as Professor Delgado and Professor Douglas, as well as Hernando and others, just came out of the hotel.

The last thing that came out was the other members of the three-party joint exploration team. The number of people added up was a lot. There were more boxes filled with various exploration equipment and other equipment, which looked a little imposing.

Especially Ye Tian, ​​who was fully armed and carrying a short assault rifle in his hand, was even more noticeable.

His appearance caused all the guys who stayed far away to watch the excitement to take a breath of air-conditioning, secretly startled.

"I'm going! Is this **** Steven really going to explore the treasures of the Golden City of the Mayan Empire? How can it look like he is going to fight in the rain forest? It's too exaggerated!"

"It seems that this guy is ready for a long time. Anyone who tries to **** the treasure of the Golden City from him will become an opponent of this guy, and he will kill those guys without hesitation.

If this tripartite joint exploration team really finds the treasures of the Mayan Empire Golden City, then there is no doubt that a **** storm will be set off around the ancient city of Copan, and even corpses will be everywhere! "

Just as people were talking, Ye Tian and the others got on the car one after another and disappeared from people's vision.

Soon, the tripartite joint exploratory convoy made a crash and drove slowly towards the ancient city of Copan, located outside the town.

When this convoy drove across the street and in front of the guys who were heading towards the Golden City, those guys immediately moved.

"The greedy **** Steven has moved, Ramos, we should move too, and we will split up according to the plan we made before, and we must not let the **** Steven sweep the treasures of the Golden City!"

In a room on the second floor of a small hotel on the street, a Hispanic man standing in front of the window said in a deep voice. This guy's eyes are always fixed on the convoy on the street below.

Two or three meters away from him, Ramos stood in front of another window with his arms folded, staring at the joint exploration convoy on the street.

"Okay, Silva, I'm going to take the guys out. Let's keep in touch at any time. Everyone must be careful. This guy Steven is known to be cruel and extremely difficult to deal with!"

Ramos nodded in response, then turned and left the room.

Looking at the back of him leaving, the eyes of the Hispanic man named Silva couldn't help but flash through a look of jealousy and even a bit of hatred.

If Ramos looked back and saw this scene, he would instantly understand where Silva's jealousy and hatred came from, of course, because of the windfall that fell from the sky!

That crazy windfall fell on himself and a few of his men, but it had nothing to do with Silva. After the news was accidentally leaked, it immediately attracted jealous eyes and even hatred!

The lucky ones who are jealous and hate themselves are just the other members of the Guatemalan Special Forces who came to Copanrenas to perform tasks, including Silva, the leader of another special forces team!

As Ramos and Silva left the room one after another, these guys from the Guatemalan Special Forces quickly launched operations.

The same scene is happening in different places in Copanrenas, and this border town has once again set off waves, which feels like a rainy day.

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The ancient city of Copan is not far from the west side of the town, and the joint exploration convoy arrived soon.

For the purpose of today's joint exploration operation and for safety reasons, the Honduran military police blocked the ancient city of Copan early on, prohibiting any visitors from entering or exiting.

When the tripartite joint exploratory team arrived, it was very quiet. You could not see a tourist, only the Honduran military and police with live ammunition.

After the convoy stopped and confirmed that the scene was safe, Ye Tian and the others got off the car and landed on the square in front of the ancient city of Copan.

The same goes for the other members of the joint exploration team. Everyone got out of the car and stood on this ancient land, standing at the door of the most splendid civilization in ancient American history, the Mayan civilization!

As soon as everyone landed, they raised their eyes and saw the towering main pyramid in the ancient city of Copan.

The ancient city of Copan, also known as the Mayan Ruins of Copan, is located in Copanrenas, in the western part of Copan Province, Honduras. It is connected to the small town of Balio to the west and is very close to the border between Honduras and Guatemala.

This famous Mayan civilization site is located in a dense forest covering an area of ​​0.05 square kilometers, isolated and protected. The main pyramid of the site is in the northeast corner of the forest.

In fact, this is only the central area of ​​the ancient city of Copan. Archaeologists call it the main building complex. As for the other buildings in the ancient city, they are scattered in the surrounding mountains and forests, or have long disappeared.

In more than 200 BC, it was the capital of the Mayan Empire, one of the most important cities in the entire Mayan Empire, and the center of scientific, cultural and religious activities at that time.

According to textual research, the ancient Mayans came to the Copan Valley as early as more than a thousand BC, and lived and worked in this rich valley.

The abundant volcanic ash here made the land quite fertile, and the Mayans were able to live here carefree for thousands of years.

Later, with the continuous expansion of the Maya and the constant warfare, the king capital of the Maya Empire changed several times and moved to other places in Central America.

However, the status of the ancient city of Copan in the Mayan Empire is still very important.

In 426 AD, a Maya named the royal blue parrot, also known as the blue bird, traveled from Teotihuacan, the city of the gods in the north, to Copan, and settled here.

The royal blue parrot probably saw that the Mayan empire on the high ground began to decline gradually, and came to the Copan Valley, which is rich in jade, to seek development.

The royal blue parrot himself is not only a brave warrior, but also proficient in the art of sacrifice, which can help the locals live a better life.

In this way, the royal blue parrot soon won the support of the locals, and established the first large temple in Copan, and then established a hereditary Copan dynasty for more than 400 years.

In the classical era of the Mayan civilization, the Copan dynasty founded by the royal blue parrot lasted for fifteen generations and ruled the Copan Valley for more than 400 years, making Copan one of the largest cities in the Mayan Empire.

Later, after a series of internal and external wars, as well as the lack of food caused by the rapid population growth and crop failure, coupled with other natural and man-made disasters that occurred constantly, the Copan Kingdom gradually fell into decline.

In 822, shortly after Copan's last king Tucker became the throne, Copan, like other Mayan cities, encountered a series of catastrophes.

Wars, diseases, floods, and droughts ruthlessly claimed the lives of a large number of Maya people. As a result, the peasants’ belief in the ruling class was shattered, and everyone left the city.

The monument to King Tucker's enthronement was only half completed, and the craftsmen were already empty.

The Copan royal family, which has lost the support of the people, never knows its end. The nobles’ rituals and hieroglyphs have since been lost, and civilization has declined.

Although the Kingdom of Copan has completely disappeared since then, there are still a small number of Mayans living in the Copan area.

Whether these Mayans came from the Copan Kingdom that once ruled here is unclear. Although they still grow corn on Copan’s land, they have forgotten their beliefs and temples.

Around 1200 AD, the once glorious ancient city of Copan gradually disappeared into the tropical rainforest and was completely swallowed up by the wildly growing rainforest plants.

When the time came in 1576, the Spanish Diego Garcia was on his way from Guatemala to the city of San Pedro Sula in Honduras and discovered the ruins of this ancient city submerged in bushes.

The ruins of this ancient city at that time included pyramids, altars, squares, six temples, stone steps, thirty-six stone tablets and carvings, etc.

This is the first time that the ancient city of Copan has appeared in the sight of a non-Maya, but this time it was called a great archaeological discovery and did not attract much attention.

In 1839, the place was rediscovered again, and the ancient city of Copan at that time was already a desolate sight.

The stone stele engraved with Mayan hieroglyphs has long been broken and tilted, and the sacred and solemn temple has already collapsed. Towering trees have grown on the building, and the cracks in the stone are full of roots of fig trees, and ancient vines are climbing. Full of broken walls.

However, the rediscovered ruins of the ancient city of Copan finally attracted the attention of the world.

Soon thereafter, research and archaeological work on the ancient city of Copan began one after another.

In the 1960s, as many Mayan hieroglyphs engraved on stone tablets were deciphered one by one, people learned about the history of the Copan Kingdom and how splendid this abandoned ancient city was.

In 1980, after recognizing the great significance of the ancient city of Copan to the Mayan civilization, UNESCO listed it as a cultural heritage of humanity and included it in the "World Heritage List."

At this time, the tripartite joint exploratory team stood outside the door of the ancient city of Copan, admiring the mysterious and brilliant Mayan civilization!

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