Lidar helps uncover an ancient, kilometer-long Mayan structure - https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/05/lidar-helps-uncover-an-ancient-kilometer-long-mayan-structure/

Lidar is fast becoming one of the most influential tools in archaeology, revealing things in a few hours what might have taken months of machete wielding and manual measurements otherwise. The latest such discovery is an enormous Mayan structure, more than a kilometer long, 3,000 years old, and seemingly used for astronomical observations. Takeshi Inomata […]


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