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Buried beneath a lake in Guatamala sits a fortune in lost treasure -- Mayan gold to be precise -- and a group of German archaeologists has just set off to find it. Their only guidance, a freshly decoded ancient book containing a map to the treasure.
It sounds like a movie, but it's very much real, reported FoxNewsLatino. Joachim Rittsteig, an expert in Mayan writing who is heading up the mission to Guatemala's Lake Izabal, the site reported. Rittsteig claims to have cracked the famous Dresden Codex, a pre-Columbian Maya book possibly from the 11th century, and discovered in its pages specific information that leads to a treasure in the lake.
"The Dresden Codex leads to a giant treasure of eight tons of pure gold," said Rittsteig, who has spent more than 40 years studying the document. According to the German newspaper Bild, which is sponsoring the expedition, two reporters from the publication, a photographer, a television camera, and a professional diver will visit Izabal in an attempt to find the gold.
A professor emeritus at Dresden University and author of various publications about the Maya culture, Rittsteig stressed that the information is in the Codex.
"Page 52 talks about the Maya capital of Atlan, which was ruined by an earthquake on October 30th in the year 666 BC," he said. "In this city, they kept 2,156 gold tablets on which the Maya recorded their laws."
Originally posted by KOLTON
reply to post by SonOfTheLawOfOne
Mayans -> Atlan?
Could this be the clue to the lost city of Atlantis?
Were the America's once part of a great "Utopian" Nation which included Atlantis, Pre-Ancient Egypt, Civilization in Australia, Easter Island, South Japan Structure, Caribbean lost city, Stonehenge, and others?
It makes me wonder...
Originally posted by Versa
I think that's what they are trying to suggest but as far as I can make out Joachim Rittsteig's 'decoding' is the source of the name of this Mayan capital Atlan...
Are there any other references to the Name Atlan in connection to the Mayans? I dont know much about the Mayans but I can't find any other reference to Atlan.
Originally posted by Harte
Originally posted by Versa
I think that's what they are trying to suggest but as far as I can make out Joachim Rittsteig's 'decoding' is the source of the name of this Mayan capital Atlan...
Are there any other references to the Name Atlan in connection to the Mayans? I dont know much about the Mayans but I can't find any other reference to Atlan.
Geez, I guess I must've missed that one.
I'm gonna say the thing is bogus. Atlan (the homeland of the Aztecs) is a Nahuatl word. Nahuatl originates in the American Southwest, after the Maya were already long established.
This is likely a hoax, IMO. I say this only because of the inclusion of the word Atlan in a Mayan context.
Harte
Originally posted by Versa
Originally posted by Harte
Originally posted by Versa
I think that's what they are trying to suggest but as far as I can make out Joachim Rittsteig's 'decoding' is the source of the name of this Mayan capital Atlan...
Are there any other references to the Name Atlan in connection to the Mayans? I dont know much about the Mayans but I can't find any other reference to Atlan.
Geez, I guess I must've missed that one.
I'm gonna say the thing is bogus. Atlan (the homeland of the Aztecs) is a Nahuatl word. Nahuatl originates in the American Southwest, after the Maya were already long established.
This is likely a hoax, IMO. I say this only because of the inclusion of the word Atlan in a Mayan context.
Harte
Thanks for the confirmation.
I think this is a sneaky 'we've found Atlantis' story that will prove to be wholly unfounded. Smells like a book in the making to me.
The Bild expedition
After many years of unsuccessfully seeking sponsors for an attempt to recover the archaeological treasure he believes to be at the bottom of Lake Izabal, by February of 2011 Joachim Rittstieg had persuaded the exploitative and sensationalist Bild newspaper to mount an expedition.
Accompanying him are reporter Tim Thorer, who previously covered the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull and interviewed former Palermo mayor and determined Mafia opponent Leoluca Orlando; reporter Jürgen Helfricht, who previously took part in South African and Zambian expeditions; photographer Holm Röhner, who previously travelled to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, Russia and Bulgaria; videographer Claas Weinmann, who covered the largely peaceful 2011 Egyptian revolution from Cairo; and diving instructor Steffen Haufe, who has conducted previous underwater expeditions exploring shipwrecks.
The expedition ended up finding nothing but a pot located on the northern shore of Lake Izabel.
Originally posted by Angelic Resurrection
Good luk to the german team.
Makes me wonder, where did the mayans mine 8 tons plus gold.