From The Daily Mail:
One of the biggest Mayan pyramids in Belize has been all but destroyed by 'ignorant' builders who ravaged the ancient structure for crushed rock to fill in a new road.
The construction workers used bulldozers and diggers to claw at the sloping sides of the 100ft tall pyramid, which is part of the Nohmul complex - the most important Mayan site in northern Belize and one which dates back at least 2,300 years.
Horrified archaeologists claim there is no way the builders could have mistaken the Mayan ruins for a hill, as the landscape is naturally flat and the Nohmul complex is well known.
I don't know why people are so happy to go round the world admiring these things which were built with slave labour - castles, pyramids and the like. Why are we supposed to worship these symbols of oppression? I think it's a bit sick really.
I much prefer things where you know the workers got paid a decent wedge, which excludes more or less everything which is more than two or three centuries old in most countries. And those rocks are probably being put to better use as hardcore anyway, you've seen one Mayan pyramid, you've seen 'em all.
Surprised by the outcome
4 hours ago
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Too bloody right. If I was running Belize, I'd get the bulldozers rolling, subsidise them if needs be, because one day, they'll be a rich enough country that a quango to protect these monuments will appear and get in the way of any development. Best to destroy what they might protect before it happens.
Well obviously, leave a few of the most impressive ones to get the tourists in, the rest of them are entirely superfluous.
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