WALL STREET MAYA
See also: Wall Street Maya (second part)

Archaeologists working deep in the jungle of highland Guatemala have uncovered the remains of an enormous Maya palace built nearly 1,300 years ago. Found at the site of Cancuén, which means "Place of Serpents," on the Río Pasion in the Petén region, the three-story palace covers some 270,000 square feet has more than 170 rooms built around 11 courtyards. Its solid limestone masonry walls are six feet thick in places. According to inscriptions, the palace was commissioned by a king, T'ah 'ak' Cha'an, who reigned in the mid-eighth century.