University of Houston researchers have unearthed an ancient Maya city hidden deep within the jungles of Campeche on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The more than 1,000-year-old city—now dubbed Yucatan Ocomtún, which means stone column in the Maya language—was uncovered by a team led by Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, co-principal investigator with the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) at U of H.
[Houston Chronicle] U of H researchers find ruins of lost Maya city in Mexico jungle
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/lost-maya-city-uh-18207087.php
3 Comments
subtext@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
Crazy that we can just miss these for hundreds of years. I hope to see them taking good care of the history and not going in too quickly.
keeb420@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
The good news is we know the exact boundaries here and won't have to go exploring for anything large. So, hopefully, the rest of the forest will be preserved.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
The LiDAR image in the article is cool. I wonder what the plan will be to do research on the ground.