Off to the east were the spectacular Maya pyramids and ruins of Tikal ... speculated that the poor condition of the ruins he examined at El Mirador might be attributed to an inferior brand of ...

where over the past millennium forests returned to fill in the parks and boulevards of once-powerful Maya cities like Tikal and El Mirador after their inhabitants left them around 900 CE.

Two of the stars lined up perfectly with the major sites El Mirador and Calakmul ... geometric edges on the map that could be the ruins of a missing Mayan city!