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  • Footprints of Lost Cities Found in the Amazon Rainforest

    Footprints of Lost Cities Found in the Amazon Rainforest

    Laser technology is continuing to prove its worth in the Amazon: A team of archaeologists in Ecuador just used the tech to discover thousands of earthen mounds hidden under the forest’s canopy. The 2,000-year-old site contains some 6,000 earthen platforms connected by ancient roads, also visible to the laser technology, called lidar. Though some of…


  • Archaeologists See Ancient Teotihuacán With Aerial Mapping Tech

    Archaeologists See Ancient Teotihuacán With Aerial Mapping Tech

    Teotihuacán in its heyday was one of the largest cities in the world, supporting over 100,000 people in an 8-square-mile stretch of what is now Central Mexico. Now, a team of archaeologists have used an aerial scanning technology to see how the landscape was modified on a sweeping scale by the people who lived there.