Lidar Imagery Reveals More Than 6,500 Unexplored Ancient Mayan Settlements, Including Pyramids

The DeBrief ^ | October 29, 2024 | Christopher Plain

[SunkenCiv]

Image by José Andrés Pacheco Cortés from Pixabay

[SunkenCiv]

• Ancient Civilization Structures With Cosmic Significance Discovered Beneath Mexico [10/27/2021]
• The great Maya "white road" that connected the cities of Coba and Yaxuna [08/02/2020]
• Maya monuments and maize in the Americas [LIDAR discovery of Aguada Fenix] [06/04/2020]
• A Mayan Archaeologist Has Discovered 27 Previously Unknown Ancient Sites -- All (from his Computer) [10/14/2019]
• Laser scanning reveals 'lost' ancient Mexican city 'had as many buildings as Manhattan' [02/17/2018]
• Exclusive: Laser Scans Reveal Maya "Megalopolis" Below Guatemalan Jungle [02/02/2018]
• Honduras to make archeological dig for mysterious 'White City' [01/09/2016]
• Ancient 'lost city' home to a vanished civilisation found deep in jungles of Honduras [03/03/2015]
• Found With Lasers: Ciudad Blanca, Mysterious 'White City' of Honduras [05/18/2013]
• LiDAR survey 'finds' lost Honduran 'city of gold' [05/15/2013]
• Pictures: Massive Maya City Revealed by Lasers [05/21/2010]
• Mapping Ancient Civilization, in a Matter of Days [05/10/2010]
• Satellites Spot Lost Guatamala Mayan Temples [02/20/2008]

[SunkenCiv]

[maro]

Why were the Mayans “Hispanic”? None of them lived in Hispania or had ancestors from there.

[Jamestown1630]

Who knows what our human past has in store for us to discover?

When I was a kid doing science projects for school, I did one on the oceans. At that time, people often said that we actually knew more about the Moon than we did our own seas.

There’s probably a lot in our ancient past that’s more important to know than what’s on Mars...

[Jamestown1630]

I don’t think Europeans knew anything about this part of the world until it did become ‘Hispanic’- hence the name.

[dp0622]

Everyone there already voted for harris

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

At that time, people often said that we actually knew more about the Moon than we did our own seas.

Still the case.

[Bob434]

lidar is some cool tech- really shows old settlements even if overgrown with vegetation- pretty cool that they have 6500 of them to explore now

[Repeal The 17th]

“...Why were the Mayans “Hispanic”?...”
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They weren’t.
Who said they were?

[maro]

The article refers to “unknown ancient Hispanic structures.”

[BenLurkin]

Good catch.

[Jamestown1630]

I have an idea - you find out and tell us what the Maya Script called it.

(We’d appreciate the pronunciation, too...)

[cpdiii]

The Mayan civilization was advanced for its time as were the Aztecs. Both were brutal as were their conquerors. The Mayan civilization collapsed due to climate change. It collapsed before one damn barrel of oil was produced from the ground by man. The Aztecs collapsed by the sword and musket of Spanish Conquistadors. Both of their blood lines still exist but not as a civilization nor tribe. They mixed with the Spanish Conquistadors. Today they are called Mexicans. I am quite familiar with them, I grew up on the border and married one, now 30 years plus. A lot of us white boys in Texas did. I guess I am a Texican.

[Vermont Lt]

Really…the ones that survived contact with the Spanish became “Hispanic.”

And that number across the Americas was relatively small.

[tet68]

a 50-square-mile section of the overgrown landscape in Campeche, Mexico.

6,500 in a 50-square mile area...

[Bob434]

thriving metropolis it seems- musta been something to see in it’s hayday-

[cpdiii]

I forgot to add my governor of Texas also married a Mexican lady of class and beauty. He chose wisely. He joined the band of Texicans. He has been an outstanding conservative governor.

[Paal Gulli]

"...reflected pulses allow researchers to peer beneath the surface of several types of terrains, including jungle forests, ..."

Since when is "jungle forests" (which is a redundancy) a "type of terrain"?

[lurk]

All those amazing people disappeared.

It could never happen to us.