Mayan temple, Belize. Don’t tell the Irish – they’d bulldoze it to build a motorway. They’re funny like that.
Who knew that Ireland’s National Roads Authority and related construction industry was also employed in Latin America? From the Guardian newspaper:
“A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with diggers and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities have announced.
The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said on Tuesday that the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial centre dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.
“It’s a feeling of incredible disbelief because of the ignorance and the insensitivity … they were using this for road fill,” Awe said. “It’s like being punched in the stomach, it’s just so horrendous.”
Photos from the scene showed diggers clawing away at the pyramid’s sloping sides, leaving an isolated core of limestone cobbles at the centre, with what appears to be a narrow Mayan chamber dangling above one clawed-out section.
It is not the first time this has happened in Belize, a country dotted with hundreds of Mayan ruins, though few as large as Nohmul.”
AN SIONNACH FIONN 
Who knew that Ireland’s National Roads Authority and related construction industry was also employed in Latin America? From the Guardian newspaper:
Ah, just like home then. Though of course we still have Brí Mhór to destroy yet! Oh the pride…
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