BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Institute of Archaeology has launched an investigation into the destruction of a Maya archaeological site in northern Belize. Pictures broadcast on a local television network over the weekend showed the near total destruction of the Noh Mul site, which means Big Hill. Officials of the Institute of Archaeology said they were shocked when they arrived at the site to see it almost totally demolished and the material from the site hauled away, apparently to be used as road construction material in a nearby village in rural Orange Walk district about 50 miles north of Belize City.
