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Mexico and China Are Excavating a Buried Maya City Hidden Under a Yucatán Farm

The project will pair Mexican specialists with Shandong University researchers to map a buried Maya city and protect heritage, officials said.

A landmark Mexico-China joint excavation has begun at Yaxcopoil, Yucatán, where remote-sensing technology is set to reveal the full scale of a buried Maya city that centuries of surface archaeology missed.

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Special: Mexico and China initiate joint archaeological project in Maya site of Yaxcopoil-Tanmul

·Beijing, China
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The Yaxcopoil-Tanmul Archaeological Project is born from the dialogue between the academic communities of Mexico and China.The collaboration will promote the exchange of knowledge and the study of the ancient Mayan civilization The Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, through the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), presented, on November 6, 2026, [...] The entry INAH and Shandong University present archaeological r…

MÉRIDA.— The Government of Mexico, through the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), presented the Yaxcopoil-Tanmul Archaeological Project, an international research and cooperation initiative that brings together Mexican specialists and Shandong University, in China, to expand knowledge and contribute to the preservation of the Mayan archaeological heritage. This international collaboration agreement seeks to add the experience…

The opening of a stone material bank motivated the community's approach to INAH and gave rise to a project with specialists from Mexico and China.

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Once Noticias broke the news on Monday, November 9, 2026.
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