Researchers find lost Mayan city in Guatemala

A device was able to identify a large lost Mayan city in Guatemala. The LIDAR laser (Light Detection and Ranging), which helped in the discovery, was used by researchers from the University of Cambridge, in the U.S, and from France.

See photos of the Mayan City:

Photo: Ancient Mesoamerica.

LIDAR managed to add to the studies the recent discovery about the experience of the Mayan population in the place with large dwellings, religious centers, courts of sports and hydraulic constructions. In all, 1600 m² were found and more than a thousand houses were built. It is estimated that the population stayed there between 1100 and 250 BC. W.

“Many of these settlements demonstrate a political/social/geographical relationship with other nearby settlements, which resulted in the consolidation of at least 417 cities, towns and ancient towns with identifiable boundaries”, pointed out the study scientific.

Mayan population in Guatemala

The researchers were able to locate hydraulic and drainage ducts that the population created in the city. This was considered something complex for the population of that time. Similar constructions had already been located in other places where the Maya people resided.

“The magnitude of work in building huge platforms, palaces, dams, causeways and pyramids dating back to the middle and late preclassic throughout the MCKB suggests a power to organize thousands of workers and specialists,” say the scholars.

With LIDAR, it was possible to identify dwellings even in dense forests, that is, even if they were under the current vegetation. This resource has already been enabled in other studies, in new discoveries. The laser allows for an even greater range of discoveries, as the light can reach and identify objects at a distance.

The Mayan population, as indicated by the study, was able to build large buildings, with people working in their own places. For scientists, the discovery in Guatemala was unprecedented and improbable. The marks of small sidewalks prove that there were also highways between the settlements, showing that people kept in touch with each other.

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