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Article: Tablets prove Site Q is La Corona
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- September 29, 2005
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The discovery of pristine stone tablets bearing 140 hieroglyphs that record 30 years of Maya history may have solved a mystery that has puzzled archeologists for half a century -- the location of an elusive city long known only as Site Q.
Looted artifacts from Site Q -- an abbreviation of the Spanish "que?" or "which?" -- are in museum and private collections around the world, but their source has long been a topic of debate.
The new tablet, discovered by archeologist Marcello Canuto of Yale University, may finally lay the debate to rest, proving that Site Q is actually an ancient royal village called La Corona in the northwest ...