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Lasers Reveal a Maya Civilization So Dense It Blew Experts’ Minds
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/world/americas/mayan-city-discovery-laser.html
Lasers Reveal a Maya Civilization So Dense It Blew Experts’ Minds
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/world/americas/mayan-city-discovery-laser.html
They were hidden there, all this time, under the cover of tree canopies in the jungles of northern Guatemala: tens of thousands of structures built by the Maya over a millennium ago.
Not far from the sites tourists already know, like the towering temples of the ancient city of Tikal, laser technology has uncovered about 60,000 homes, palaces, tombs and even highways in the humid lowlands.
The findings suggested an ancient society of such density and interconnectedness that even the most experienced archaeologists were surprised.