Anthropologists have discovered a great palace that may have been used by the Maya elite more than a thousand years ago in the ancient city of Coluba, near the currently popular tourist area of Cancun in eastern Mexico.
The National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico said in a statement that the remains of the building, which is 6 meters high, 55 meters long and 15 meters wide, indicate that the palace was inhabited for two long periods between 600-1050 AD.
The palace was discovered in the east of the Archaeological Zone of Coluba, a major site before the Spanish era in the Mexican state of Yucatan.