Scientists Were Exploring A Jungle When They Found A Vast Maya Settlement Hidden Beneath The Canopy

Thanks for the stars! Interesting technology.....

Some commenters are calling him out for date discrepancies. Hmmmmmm

This Littlepixie just wanted to pop in to leave a thank you for you OP.

I'm loving the video you posted, it's giving me goosebumps!

Thank you so much for the pine!

It seems like the world is so small sometimes and then this happens. There is much left to explore and learn about. Thank god lol

"... the area is threatened by slash and burn agriculture ..."


BS. When there were millions of people and advanced civilization in the area (unlike today when any technology they have they import from the first world) I am sure they had far less trees.

Where I live in the suburbs in NY state, there are a lot of trees. It's almost like a forest with houses placed within it. But there are pictures of the area from around the time of the Civil War, 150 years ago, and all the land was clear and being farmed. It doesn't take long for a forest to grow, when land is no longer being farmed. In the case of this area, the Erie Canal and later transportation made it possible to bring in food from better farmland in the midwest.

Cutting down a lot of those trees (in Guatemala and other parts of Central America) would allow them to farm an area that has such great weather, you can just drop a seed on the ground and it will grow. And less trees would allow the trade winds to blow through and cut down on the heat and humidity.

The area's worth repopulating.

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Thank you all so much. I must leave until the morning. I will check back tonight if I can.

Interesting. Thanks for commenting.

Great video, 5* and green for you!

The ancient Mayan culture is really something, they knew about the wheel (children's toys had them) but they never used wheels because they had plenty of river transportation which was way more efficient.

Nice video!

5 stars and saving for later!! I have so many favorites I had to delete some today and here I go adding more

Thanks OP!!

You are so welcome! Now bed!

I want him to scan Antarctica.

for later

Nice find but rivers over200f? Yea right, this report be full of shit.

'New tech' with same stories and threads dating back 3-4 years.....they've been able to see all the shit under the canopy for a long time, but no new stories about expeditions or excavations....whatever they've been finding is under wraps.

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Can they combine 'LIDAR' and molecular detection for say, gold?

Scientists will be digging up our graves too.
I'm being cremated.

Oh, they'll likely invent some type of ash time calculator and genome restructuring program that will be able to recreate your person in a digital apparatus. Probably will be developed in a future dystopian crime scene investigation field of study.

I'm gonna be mummified with a platinum codpiece set with 67 jewels.....along with inscriptions from my kiddos pre-k artwork etched in.....just to fuck with people 2000 years from now.

lol

I haven't watched the vid but what immediately came to mind is a story I read/vid I saw, a few years back(could be 5 or more, I'm not sure, maybe someone will recall) about a Woman who discovered a whole slew of previously unknown/forgotten to time, ancient Egyptian cities & pyramids. As I recall it was done by using NASA/Military satellites that had some sort of ability to either see things below ground or some laser/software combination which detected subtle, hurried "things" by detecting patterns & converting them to sort rendered picture of what was barried. Sorry if that didn't convey my thoughts well, my dog woke me up & so decided to jump online while I had a smoke.

Very cool. Thanks

What mud huts and human sacrifice,maybe a pile of rocks.High culture indeed.

save for later

And still never invented the wheel.SMH

Whats next?The wise elders climb a tree to get honey?

Yeah the narrator said 200bce instead of 2000bce... a narrator mistake