article_snippet: A team of U.S. and Honduran Honduran archaeologists have just returned from La Mosquitia.
article_snippet: A team of U.S. and Honduran archaeologists have announced that — like Morde
article_snippet: According to the National Geographic magazine, which accompanied the expedition, U.S. and Honduran archaeologists have surveyed and mapped ‘extensive plazas, earthworks, mounds and an earthen pyramid belonging to a culture that thrived 1,000 years ago, and then vanished’.
article_snippet: A team of U.S. and Honduran archaeologists also discovered a breathtaking collection of stone sculptures that had lain untouched since the ruined city was abandoned.
article_snippet: Christopher Fisher, an archaeologist from Colorado State University and team member, believes the sculptures — found at the base of the pyramid —
article_snippet: A team of U.S. and Honduran archaeologists first found the ruins nearly three years ago during an aerial survey using a high-tech scanner that was able to pierce the jungle canopy with laser light and reveal archaeological features.
article_snippet: The remote, rugged area is a major cocaine smuggling route and the scientists, who were ferried to the site by helicopter, were accompanied by Honduran special forces and former members of Britain’s SAS.
article_snippet: Even without excavation, the scientists, who were ferried to the site by helicopter found 52 artefacts sticking out from the ground with many more clearly lying in the earth and vegetation beneath.
article_snippet: the scientists, who were ferried to the site by helicopter included stone ceremonial seats, and finely carved vessels decorated with snakes, vultures and animal-like figures.