https://archive.md/CM0FK
"Beneath 1,350 square miles of dense jungle in northern Guatemala, scientists
have discovered 417 cities that date back to circa 1000 B.C. and that are
connected by nearly 110 miles of “superhighways” — a network of what
researchers called “the first freeway system in the world.”
Scientist say this extensive road-and-city network, along with sophisticated
ceremonial complexes, hydraulic systems and agricultural infrastructure,
suggests that the ancient Maya civilization, which stretched through what is
now Central America, was far more advanced than previously thought.
Mapping the area since 2015 using lidar technology — an advanced type of radar
that reveals things hidden by dense vegetation and the tree canopy —
researchers have found what they say is evidence of a well-organized economic,
political and social system operating some two millennia ago.
The discovery is sparking a rethinking of the accepted idea that the people of
the mid- to late-Preclassic Maya civilization (1000 B.C. to A.D. 250) would
have been only hunter-gatherers, “roving bands of nomads, planting corn,” says
Richard Hansen, the lead author of a study about the finding that was published
in January and an affiliate research professor of archaeology at Idaho State
University."
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