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More Than 2.5 Kilometers of Hidden Inca Trails Discovered Near Machu Picchu
15+ hour, 11+ min ago (708+ words) The Mandor Wall lies in a difficult-to-access part of the Machu Picchu Archaeological Park. Steep terrain and dense vegetation make conventional archaeological surveys difficult, particularly when structures leave only subtle traces on the ground. LiDAR, short for Light Detection and…...
Amazon ancient structures found by laser scanning
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (236+ words) Hidden jungle ruins revealed by laser scanning technology show the immense scale of ancient settlements in South America. Researchers mapped thousands of monumental earthworks hidden beneath the dense Amazon rainforest canopy. This discovery completely rewrites the pre-Columbian demographic history of…...
Laser scanning reveals thousands of ancient structures hidden in the Amazon
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (142+ words) Beneath the forest canopy: monumental Amazonian earthworks revealed through Lidar scanning. (Image courtesy: Pärssinen, M., Kalliola, R., Ranzi, A. et al. Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia / Nature) Building on this scale required organized labour and a working knowledge…...
The Atlantic’s Sunken Plateau: What Lies Beneath the Azores?
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (35+ words) t.co Ancient Origins seeks to uncover what we believe is one of the most important pieces of knowledge we can acquire as human beings: Our beginnings...
Keswick-based global explorer Geoff Somers was the epitome of humility
1+ week, 2+ day ago (238+ words) There was a large turn out of mourners at the funeral of renowned polar traveller and international adventurer Geoff Somers at the Eden Valley Crematorium on Thursday last week. He died on July 18 following a long illness and the world…...
Airborne laser scanning finds over 20,000 ceremonial earthworks belonging to a lost civilization in the Amazon that was once home to millions of people
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (743+ words) Scientists are only now beginning to understand the full extent of those changes. New research using airborne laser scanning reveals this civilization, known as Aquiry, occupied roughly 70,700 square miles (183,000 square kilometers) and was home to millions of people between 600 BCE…...
Aquiry Civilization: LiDAR Reveals an Amazonian Society That May Have Supported Millions
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (715+ words) A new study published in Nature has revealed the scale of the Aquiry civilization, a multicultural society that flourished in southwestern Amazonia from about 600 B.C. to 850 A.D. Using airborne laser scanning, researchers mapped ancient earthworks hidden beneath the rainforest and estimated that…...
Top Five Places Humans Were Never Meant to Discover.
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (35+ words) Some secrets are buried for a reason. The world is full of secrets that were meant to stay hidden. Buried beneath the sands of deserts, locked …...
Scientists Found Nearly 400 Hidden Structures Under the Amazon, and the Real Number Could Be 30,000
1+ week, 1+ day ago (496+ words) A single Amazon survey just uncovered hundreds of structures no one knew were there, and hinted at thousands more still hidden. What they reveal about the people who built them, and how suddenly it all came to an end. The…...
8 eerie abandoned places around the world that scientists refuse to visit - AOL
1+ week, 1+ day ago (13+ words) 8 eerie abandoned places around the world that scientists refuse to visit AOL.com...