"In early May of this year, a Canadian teenager sparked a global frenzy with the news that he had located a previously unknown Maya city in the Mexican jungle—while never leaving his home country."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/lost-maya-city-mexico-william-gadoury-satellite-discovery-archaeology
"A Canadian teenager believes he has discovered the ruins of a lost Mayan city in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula — with the assistance of Google Maps and a star chart.
William Gadoury, of Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec, has had a longstanding interest in Mayan civilization, particularly where they chose to build their towns and cities."
https://www.foxnews.com/science/15-year-old-boy-claims-to-have-found-lost-mayan-city-from-his-house
"He found Mayan cities lined up exactly with stars in the civilization's major constellations."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/forgotten-mayan-city-discovered-central-america-15-year-old-a7021291.html
"Gadoury had been studying 22 Maya constellations for years before releasing that he could line up the positions of 117 Maya cities on the ground with maps of stars and constellations above - something that no one had pieced together before.
With this in mind, he located a 23rd constellation, which included just three stars. According to his sky map, he could only link up two cities with the three stars, so suspected that a third city remained undetected in that spot."
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-15-year-old-just-discovered-a-lost-maya-city-in-central-america
"Taking this idea further, Gadoury contacted the Canadian Space Agency, who provided him with space-based images from NASA and JAXA. These satellite images revealed a batch of undeniably geometric structures hidden under the jungle canopy. Gadoury, along with Dr. Armand LaRocque, a remote sensing specialist from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, believe it’s an ancient Maya pyramid surrounded by 30 smaller structures. The teen has named the city—which has yet to be explored and verified—K’aak Chi, which means “Mouth of Fire.” If confirmed, it would be among the largest Maya cities ever discovered."
https://gizmodo.com/teen-discovers-lost-maya-city-using-ancient-star-maps-1775735999
"An assistant professor of anthropology at McGill University is cautioning that the work of a Quebec teenager who has possibly discovered a "lost" Mayan city has not been peer-reviewed"
https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/165584/Kid-discovers-lost-city-
"It’s been reported that this claim represents an 86-meter pyramid and up to 30 structures around it. Actual experts, however, are more than a little skeptical of claims that Gadoury located a major Maya city, instead identifying it as a cornfield, or milpa."
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/228171-doubts-cast-over-whether-teenager-located-lost-maya-city
Experts: Teen's 'Discovery' of Maya City is a Very Western Mistake
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/20160511-Maya-Lost-City-Canadian-Teen-Discover-Constellations-Archaeology-Satellite-Stars-Gadoury