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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…
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NASA’s Enigmatic Green Lasers Spotted by Japanese Astronomer
Japanese museum curator and astronomer Daichi Fujii spotted something irregular last September in several motion-sensing cameras he had set up: three brilliant green lights that streaked across the sky.
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Archaeologists Map Nearly 500 Mesoamerican Sites and See Distinct Design Patterns
Archaeologists created 3D maps of more than 77,700 of precolonial settlements in what is today Mexico, revealing never-before-seen details of how sites were designed and their apparent connections to the ancient Mesoamerican calendar.
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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.