Archaeologists are finding these ruins faster due to better satellite technology. Using a pulsed laser technique called lidar, or light detection and ranging, satellites can peer through the dense ...
Archaeologists are finding these ruins faster due to better ... managed agriculture and kept records using writing. Mayan sites such as Chichén Itzá in Mexico are today marked as sites of ...
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