A lost Maya city surfaced almost by chance inside old lidar data, suggesting the jungle may still be hiding whole urban landscapes in datasets no archaeologist has properly read.

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A lost Maya city surfaced almost by chance inside old lidar data, suggesting the jungle may still be hiding whole urban landscapes in datasets no archaeologist has properly read.
A lost Maya city surfaced almost by chance inside old lidar data, suggesting the jungle may still be hiding whole urban landscapes in datasets no archaeologist has properly read.
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A previously unrecorded Maya city has been identified in eastern Campeche, Mexico, not by an expedition cutting through jungle but by a graduate student reanalysing a laser survey flown in 2013 to monitor forests.

The find, named Valeriana and report..

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