PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident

[edwest4]

Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle by accident

The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.

www.bbc.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Interesting name they chose for their discovery, for a moment when I first saw that I was wondering if it was in someway a homage to Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets or its source material. It is probably in relation to this though:

Valeriana - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

EDIT: Overlooked this somehow;

Mr Auld-Thomas and his colleagues named the city Valeriana after a nearby lagoon.

 

[publiusr]

Valerian is also an herb you can buy IIRC

 

[BlackBat242]

Valerian is also an herb you can buy IIRC

Valerian (Valeriana officinalis, Caprifoliaceae) is a perennial flowering plant native to Europe and Asia.
Crude extract of valerian root may have sedative and anxiolytic effects, and is commonly sold in dietary supplement capsules to promote sleep, but clinical evidence that it is effective for this purpose is weak or inconclusive as yet.[ Its roots and leaves cause a catnip-like response in cats.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved the health claim that valerian can be used as a traditional herb to relieve mild nervous tension and to aid sleep; the EMA stated that although there is insufficient evidence from clinical studies, its effectiveness as a dried extract is considered plausible.