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Humans have long been fascinated with the universe around us — as proven by an archaeological site recently unearthed. The 3,000-year-old Mayan site is thought to be a giant, city-size map showing the ‘order of the universe,’ researchers say. It's the largest monumental construction known today in the Maya area in the state of Tabasco, near Mexico's southeastern border. (Picture: Takeshi Inomata/School of Anthropology)

The monument was found at a site called Aguada Fénix, and is nearly a mile long and a quarter-mile wide, ranging from 30 to 50 feet high, and dates to 1,000 BC. It was found in the summer of 2020, and in the five years since the researchers have found nearly 500 similar, smaller sites around the landscape in southeastern Mexico. (Picture: Ta

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