The hidden city of Maya, which was discovered by a PhD student in Mexico: “There is a lot to be discovered.”

Sprawling Maya City With the palaces and pyramids, it was discovered in a heavy Mexican forest by a doctoral student, who inadvertently led the site years ago to visit Mexico.

A doctorate in archaeology at the University of Toulin, Luke Old Thomas, was in Mexico about a decade ago, traveling between the town of Xpujil, the site of archaeology, and coastal cities, when he traveled through unacceptable settlements in the depth of the scene.

But combing these thick bush needs the help of Lidar, which is a remote sensing technology that uses the laser to measure the distances of objects on the surface of the earth.

This can be very expensive. Old Thomas said that the financiers are often reluctant to invest in Lidar polls in areas where there is no clear evidence for the Mayan settlements.

However, after several years, the Auld-thethhomas had an idea. He would have used previously existing surveys to see if the Mayan civilizations could be in these areas.

“Scientists in Environmental Science, Forestry and Civil Engineering are used press release Tuesday. “So what if there is a Lady Survey in this field already exists?”

In 2018, Auld-thethhom is a coach at the Northern Arizona University, Data Collected In 2013 in a project led by nature preservation in Mexico to monitor carbon in Mexico’s forests. The previous team’s goal was to appoint carbon over the ground in the forests.

The audience’s data collection allowed the AULD-THOMAS research team to determine the location as the terrain that deserves more archaeological investigation.

For five years, the Auld-thetomas and his team analyzed everything remotely, using technology and analysis. And when the AULD-thethhomas analyzed this data, a big surprise-evidence of more than 6,600 of the Maya structures, including a large city unknown previously with the iconic stone pyramids.

The team did not expect to discover an ancient city that puts ongoing doubts among researchers that the low Maya area is likely to be inhabitant, as researchers believe. It also verifies the validity of previous research and raises a permanent question.

He said: “It does not reveal a different perspective about the Maya and the landscape, as it actually explains to us that the perspective that we already have is very accurate,” adding, “The number of buildings in the entire data set is high enough to talk about the really high regional population entities.”

The researchers published their results on Tuesday in Ancient times magazineDescribing the vast structures and buildings that include the old city called “Valeriana” after the nearby freshwater lake. The team cooperated with the Institute of Cultural Heritage in Mexico, local archaeologists, and the National Center for air laser maps of air at Houston University, which enabled them to conduct a distance research.

“This density is similar to the Mayan sites such as Calcolol, Axpemel and Bayan,” said Adriana Velaskwoyez Murlett, director of the National Institute of Anthropier, and one of the participants in the research in a statement.

He added that their institute is working with the local population to ensure the preservation of the new site.

Auld-thethhomas said that archaeologists who knew the area well were able to improve the team’s analysis and provide a “really deep perspective in this region.”

Old Thomas told CBS News: “The nature of the rubble and the archaeological buildings that were there-were great and immediately known as a kind of things that determine the political capital for the classic period Maya,” Old Thomas told CBS News.

The height of the Maya empire was the classic period, which spanned from about 250 m to 900 m at least, when it achieved breakthroughs in astronomy, hieroglyphic writings and evaluation system.

It can be said more Advanced civilization In the Americas, the empire once has once known as South Mexico and Northern Central America, including the countries of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. Almost 7 to 11 million people live in the Maya civilization during this time, according to L. Study 2018 In the Journal of Science.

Old Thomas said that his team analyzed 50 square miles, and found that the city of Valeriana-which was built 150 AD-contains thousands of structures including palaces, temple pyramids, public plasmas, Palk Book, tank and family homes. Technology allowed researchers to see archaeological settlements even in dense forest conditions in the southeast of the Mexican Cambishi state.

Archaeologists in 2018 Detect A huge network of Maya ruins hidden for centuries in Guatemala forests. In 2022, the lands of human burial and bullets were Spanish rifles find out At the site of Maya in the country.

Auld-thethhomas said that the reason for the large parts of the Maya world is unknown in an archaeological point of view is that the region is very vast, leaving large areas of it not exposed by researchers who document their existence after that. Auld-thethhomas said that the local population may have known about the structures, but the government and the largest scientific community did not do so.

“This really puts a mark behind the statement that we, no, did not find everything, and yes, there is a lot that can be discovered.” He said in a press release of the University of Toleen.

He also said that the research emphasized the value of open data in science, and that the data that a person collects in one major may be useful for a person in the field of completely different research.

“What I hope is that this does not encourage the opening of data in general, but also cooperation between archaeologists and environmental scientists to move forward.”