In the jungles of Belize, one kilometer from the ancient Maya center at Dos Hombres, Cal Poly Humboldt students and professor of anthropology, Marisol Cortes-Rincon, discovered the location of a Maya temple dating to somewhere between 250 and 900 A.D.

“From the top of a knoll, we saw large architecture,” Cortes-Rincon says. “When we realized what we found, we were like little kids. All the students, including myself, were dancing around.”