Lidar analysis, Tikal (IMAGE)

Brown University

Lidar analysis, Tikal

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A recent lidar analysis revealed that an area once assumed to be natural hills, center, near Tikal's Lost World complex, right, is actually an 1,800-year-old ruined citadel.

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Thomas Garrison/PACUNAM

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