Scientists discover hidden Mayan superhighways

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Using lidar technology in Guatemala, researchers have found what they say is evidence of a well-organized economic, political and social system operating from the mid- to late-Preclassic Maya civilization (1000 B.C. to A.D. 250). #shorts #guatemala
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Ok but who actually built that sims house? Throw it up on the gallery. Pretty cute starter home.

mogfoil
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I can't stop watching documentaries of people exploring cities via Lidar maps. They are so Indiana Jones, except it's real archeology.

BankruptMonkey
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"Mayan Superhighways"
History Channel Guy: *_Aliens_*

nekomakhea
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Just to clarify, the Mayan civilization didn't date back to 3, 000 years ago, that's the Olmec civilization. The Mayan civilization didn't come along until about 250 BCE.

adammcinnes
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Wait so is the jungle canopy seriously so thick that entire structures can stay obscured? Is there a large portion of the jungle that we haven’t explored just like with the ocean?

charlotteg
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Lidar is amazing for geology. Can penetrate underground and lets you see all morphology structures down to square feet of many states

kgw
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My former landlord's wife, Geri Evilla researches this exact stuff as an archeologist with University of Denver. She went on a trip in 2018 or 2019 and uncovered a bunch of graves along a buried highway in Peru. The highway was constructed over a thousamd years ago and the burials predated the highways.

pandorasflame
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Can we talk about the fact that this is a news channel account, I love that

whynotcheese
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We now know who built all those tracks for sonic

RmanDemigd
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Still can't get over how shows call Lidar "brand new technology" still

DeadPerfection
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It’s sad but kinda funny to think the original explorers saw these cities and wrote about them which gave rise to the many “lost” city mythologies in the region because when the second wave of Europeans came some 300-400 years later, most of these cities were gone and most of the natives dead due to disease brought over by the first Europeans. They inadvertently sealed the fate of the natives because had the natives had the same immunity as their counter parts, things could have gone a whole lot different when they came back.

Who
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What happen to such an early advanced civilization? We need to learn from it.

gloriabeckley
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That's a cute Sims home, I absolutely love it. The Mayan stuff is cool too I guess

aronp
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Love your science/educational shorts. Especially you flying through the sky 🦸‍♂️

KS-czqc
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The lost cities of the Americas were real thriving civilizations. But disease from early European explorers decimated their numbers. Later expeditions could not find the large thriving cultures because they were already dead. Only recently are researchers finally admitting that large, advanced civilizations existed in the Americas.

All the die-hards that were dismissed for decades are finally feeling some sense of success. Though many have already had their reputations irreparably harmed by being outside the mainstream of historical "experts" that easily dismissed the ideas that backwater brownskins could possibly be more than mere savages.

FeatheringWalthamstones
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It's such a shame how much was lost when we Europeans crossed the ocean. Partly due to war of course but mostly due to the diseases we brought to them which they had no way to be immune too

HildeTheOkayish
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Lidar's socks were the perfect touch

bertbaker
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Lidar drawing is cool and made a pretty good horror game concept a few years ago

JacobGaming
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He’s such a dork! Love these videos! Great channel!

pamplemoussejus
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hadn't heard about this will have to read more on it! always like getting new history information to learn.

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