Monday, February 5, 2018

Scientists uncover hidden Mayan city of 10M people in Guatemala

An international team of researchers have identified tens of thousands of previously unknown Mayan structures using a high-tech aerial mapping technology known as Lidar. Discovered in the jungles of Guatemala, the ancient structures include homes, pyramids, defense installations, large-scale agricultural fields, and irrigation canals, suggesting that up to ten million people lived in the area at its peak. “That is two to three times more [inhabitants] than people were saying there were,” Marcello...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/scientists-uncover-hidden-mayan-city-of-10m-people-in-guatemala
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