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"The government never knew about it; the scientific community never knew about it.""The government never knew about it; the scientific community never knew about it."While combing through detailed three-dimensional LiDAR maps of areas covered in dense vegetation, an archeologist uncovered a lost Mayan city called Valeriana in the jungles of southern Mexico.
"I was on something like page 16 of Google search and found a laser survey done by a Mexican organization for environmental monitoring," he said in aAuld-Thomas and his colleagues from Tulane University's Department of Anthropology found evidence of more than 6,500 pre-Hispanic structures in Campeche, Mexico, including iconic stone pyramids.
"The government never knew about it; the scientific community never knew about it," he added. "That really puts an exclamation point behind the statement that, no, we have not found everything, and yes, there's a lot more to be discovered."LiDAR pulses shot at the ground from aircraft allow archeologists to measure minute differences in distances to create three-dimensional models of even heavily forested areas, such as southern Mexico's dense jungles.
"For a long time, our understanding of the Mayan civilization was limited to an area of a few hundred square kilometers," Auld-Thomas explained.
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