Credit: The Guardian
The Earth is so vast, archaeologists are still finding
remnants of lost civilizations. Most recently, researchers discovered a
Mayan city, hidden in the Guatemalan jungle, which is estimated to have
been home to approximately 10 million citizens.
The Guardian
reports that the researchers used a high-tech aerial mapping technique
to find tens of thousands of hidden structures. They include Mayan
houses, buildings, defense works, pyramids, an industrial-sized
agricultural field and irrigation canals. At least four major Mayan
ceremonial centers with plazas were also detected by the mapping
technique.
News of the lost
city, which was hidden in the jungle of Guatemala’s Peten region, was
announced on Thursday by an alliance of US, European and Guatemalan
archeologists who have been working in conjunction with Guatemala’s
Mayan Heritage and Nature Foundation.
