Mayan "Megalopolis"

[Anddenex]

A good friend of mine just posted the following from an article from the National Geographic website.
 

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In what’s being hailed as a “major breakthrough” in Maya archaeology, researchers have identified the ruins of more than 60,000 houses, palaces, elevated highways, and other human-made features that have been hidden for centuries under the jungles of northern Guatemala.

Using a revolutionary technology known as LiDAR (short for “Light Detection And Ranging”), scholars digitally removed the tree canopy from aerial images of the now-unpopulated landscape, revealing the ruins of a sprawling pre-Columbian civilization that was far more complex and interconnected than most Maya specialists had supposed.

“The LiDAR images make it clear that this entire region was a settlement system whose scale and population density had been grossly underestimated,” said Thomas Garrison, an Ithaca College archaeologist and National Geographic Explorer who specializes in using digital technology for archaeological research.

 

 

[Grunt]

Whenever people belittle my beliefs based on their "facts" I always just smile.  What will we learn tomorrow that upsets our "facts" of today?

[Anddenex]

32 minutes ago, Grunt said:

Whenever people belittle my beliefs based on their "facts" I always just smile.  What will we learn tomorrow that upsets our "facts" of today?

True!