{"id":387,"date":"2018-04-20T21:32:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoscience.org\/?p=387"},"modified":"2018-04-20T21:32:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T20:32:55","slug":"sprawling-maya-network-discovered-under-guatemala-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/20\/sprawling-maya-network-discovered-under-guatemala-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprawling Maya network discovered under Guatemala jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Archeology<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i> <\/i><strong><i>History<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Date: Feb, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Source: <i>BBC<\/i><\/p>\n<div>Archaeologists have discovered a large network of Mayan structures in the jungles of Guatemala that would alter our understanding of Mayan civilization. Using a laser technology called Lidar (light detecting and ranging), the researchers were able to see 60,000 ruins beneath the forest canopy.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I think this is one of the greatest advances in over 150 years of Maya archaeology,&#8221; said Stephen Houston, Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology at Brown University.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Lidar is revolutionizing archaeology the way the Hubble Space Telescope revolutionised astronomy,&#8221; said Francisco Estrada-Belli, a Tulane University archaeologist. &#8220;We&#8217;ll need 100 years to go through all [the data] and really understand what we&#8217;re seeing.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The Mayan civilization \u200bis believed to have attained\u00a0its peak 1,500 years ago, and was estimated to have five million people. &#8220;With this new data it&#8217;s no longer unreasonable to think that there were 10 to 15 million people there,&#8221; said Mr Estrada-Belli, &#8220;including many living in low-lying, swampy areas that many of us had thought uninhabitable.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Source: BBC.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-42916261?intlink_from_url=http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/topics\/c1038wnxyy0t\/archaeology&amp;link_location=live-reporting-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/<wbr \/>world-latin-america-42916261?<wbr \/>intlink_from_url=http:\/\/www.<wbr \/>bbc.com\/news\/topics\/<wbr \/>c1038wnxyy0t\/archaeology&amp;link_<wbr \/>location=live-reporting-story<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Note:\u00a0The Secret Doctrine refers to the work of Auguste le Plongeon &#8220;Sacred Mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 years ago&#8221;,\u200b who shows the\u00a0identity between the Egyptian rites and beliefs and those of the people he describes.The ancient hieratic alphabets of the Maya and the Egyptians are almost identical.<br \/>\nH.P.B. suggests that there was an ancient connection between the Central American peoples, the Mayas and other races, and the Egyptians by means of a connecting Atlantis.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archeology History Date: Feb, 2018 Source: BBC Archaeologists have discovered a large network of Mayan structures in the jungles of Guatemala that would alter our understanding of Mayan civilization. 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