Lamanai

Lamanai ("submerged crocodile" in Yucatec Maya) is Belize's longest-occupied Mayan site, inhabited until well after Christopher Columbus "discovered" the New World in 1492. In fact archaeologists have found signs of continuous occupation from 1500 BC until AD 1700.

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