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History => Ancient and Medieval History => Topic started by: Duncan Head on October 29, 2024, 09:56:48 AM

Title: New Mayan city in Mexican jungle found by lidar
Post by: Duncan Head on October 29, 2024, 09:56:48 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmznzkly3go
Title: Re: New Mayan city in Mexican jungle found by lidar
Post by: Jim Webster on October 29, 2024, 10:54:37 AM
I found it fascinating that they'd used an environmental data set
Title: Re: New Mayan city in Mexican jungle found by lidar
Post by: Erpingham on October 29, 2024, 10:56:08 AM
I like the idea of scrolling through the internet and "accidentally" finding a lost city.
Title: Re: New Mayan city in Mexican jungle found by lidar
Post by: Jim Webster on October 29, 2024, 11:57:40 AM
Quote from: Erpingham on October 29, 2024, 10:56:08 AMI like the idea of scrolling through the internet and "accidentally" finding a lost city.

The guy was on the radio this morning. He read a paper where someone else had found ruins using environmental data so thought he'd give it a twirl and hunted down some data sets. One of them had the city
The other two merely had small towns etc  8)
Title: Re: New Mayan city in Mexican jungle found by lidar
Post by: Imperial Dave on October 29, 2024, 01:27:56 PM
Love it...

Great find
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