A walled Maya city from 2,600 years ago was laid out in a grid that suggests the ruler who oversaw the design was a particularly powerful person. The city, Nixtun-Ch'ich' in Petén, Guatemala, is being protected from looters by the ranchers who own the land upon which the ancient city is situated.
The city has flat-top pyramids and other large structures that were oriented on an east-west axis that deviated by only 3 percent from true east, says an article in Live Science. It is the only Maya city designed in a grid. Another ancient Mexican city, Teotihuacan of the Aztecs, was laid out in a grid, but this was a different civilization.
“It's a top-down organization,” archaeologist Timothy Pugh of Queens College of New York told Live Science. “Some sort of really, really, powerful ruler had to put this together.”
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