Star pupil finds lost Mayan city by studying ancient charts of the night sky from his bedroom

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A Canadian schoolboy appears to have discovered a lost Mayan city hidden deep in the jungles of Mexico using a new method of matching stars to the location of temples on earth.

William Gadoury, 15, was fascinated by the ancient Central American civilization and spent hours poring over diagrams of constellations and maps of known Mayan cities.

Source: Star pupil finds lost Mayan city by studying ancient charts of the night sky from his bedroom

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