The story
A huge lost city has been found in the jungle in Mexico. The city was built by Maya people hundreds of years ago. Archaeologists believe up to 50,000 people could have lived in the city before Maya civilisations began to collapse in 800AD. The city, named Valeriana by scientists, is only 15km from a main road where Maya people still live today.
News headlines
PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident
BBC News
Mayan city with buildings and plazas hiding in plain sight has only now been found
World Is One News
Have we found all the major Maya cities? Not even close, new research suggests
phys.org
Key words and phrases
by accident
without intending to
- I upset my boss by accident. I was only trying to make a joke.
hide in plain sight
be concealed or unseen even though it can clearly be seen
- The diary was hidden in plain sight. We’d been searching for hours and hadn’t noticed it.
not even close
not at all true
- Will the restaurant be ready to open in time? Not even close. Our chef has quit.