Sep. 28, 2005 New Haven, Conn. -- A team of scientists including
Marcello Canuto, professor of anthropology at Yale, has found
incontrovertible proof of Site Q, a long-speculated Maya city,
during a mission to the northwest Peten region of Guatemala. The
proof—an in-situ panel carved with over 140 hieroglyphs that
fill in a key 30 year chapter in classic Maya history—was found
in a little known ancient royal center called La Corona. Roughly
40 years ago, the antiquities market was flooded with many
exquisitely carved monuments of apparent Mayan origin. Many were
purchased for private and museum collections despite a lack of
provenance. Because of their similar style and shared subject
matter, it was suggested that they came from some still unknown
site located somewhere in the Peten lowlands. This site called
Site Q — an abbreviation of the Spanish “ ¿que? ” or “ which? ”
—has been the target of many expeditions. The expedition to
Guatemala this past April was to set up camp for an in-depth
study later this y