 researchers used technology called LiDAR (laser imaging, detection, and ranging) for the purposes of performing the study. Aerial mapping of more than 95 square kilometres (37 square miles) of the jungle's canopy was conducted by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) in Houston, in the US state of Texas. A LiDAR equipment image shows temples, palaces, housing complexes and landscape, terraces and canals, of a city buried underground at Calakmul in Campeche, Mexico ( Newsflash) Also included in the imaging procedures were experts from the Aerotecnologia Digital SA de CV, from the city of Pachuca, in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Calakmul, which is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche, is located deep in the jungles of the greater Peten Basin region. It was considered one of the largest and most powerful ancient cities ever uncovered in the Maya lowlands. The Maya archaeological site lies some 35 kilometres from the Guatemalan border and is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The LiDAR technology scientists used during this researched enabled them to corroborate that this ancient Mayan city was one of the largest in America, more than 1,300 years ago. It is estimated to have had a population of 50,000 people - including a governance of places as far away as 150 kilometres (93 miles) at times. LiDAR technology enabled scientists to corroborate t){kind=link}
Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found a previously undetected Mayan town in the dense jungle of of Mexico, suggesting that millions more people lived there than previously thought
A huge Mayan settlement hidden underneath a jungle in Mexico has been discovered by researchers.
Numerous temples, houses, terraces and canals have been detected using laser imaging at the Calakmul archaeological site in the state of Campeche, in Mexico, North America.
National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) researchers used technology called LiDAR (laser imaging, detection, and ranging) for the purposes of performing the study.
Aerial mapping of more than 95 square kilometres (37 square miles) of the jungle’s canopy was conducted by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) in Houston, in the US state of Texas.