Laser technology reveals enormous Mayan civilization

‘Game Changer’: Maya Cities Unearthed In Guatemala Forest Using Lasers

In a few hours, using LiDAR radar from a fixed-wing aircraft, “archaeologists have discovered 60,000 Maya structures that make up full sprawling cities.”  The Mayan civilization was “three or four times more densely populated than originally thought.”

Tikal “was found to be three or four times larger than the scientists had thought, with a previously undiscovered pyramid in its center.”

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The forest today and as revealed by LiDAR data collected by aircraft. 

 

 

 

 

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About Stephen Carr Hampton

Stephen Carr Hampton is an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation, an avid birder since age 7, and a former resource economist for the California Department of Fish & Game, where he worked as a tribal liaison and conducted natural resource damage assessments and oversaw environmental restoration projects after oil spills. He writes most often about Native history and contemporary issues, birds, and climate change.
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2 Responses to Laser technology reveals enormous Mayan civilization

  1. zel tupacovlatico's avatar zel tupacovlatico says:

    The Quechua language of the Mayans, Aztecs and Inca has Semitic traces, which along with their Lebanese noses and Pyramids proves they were Phoenicians. They also share the mafia vendetta style of conflict management prominent in the Mediterranean which the Phoenicians colonized. Even the Punics from Carthage that first settled Spain were Phoenicians.

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