A team of researchers discovered a series of 3,000-year-old Mayan cities and highways in northern Guatemala, according to a study published in early December.
The high-tech study revealed at least 1,000 ancient Maya settlements, including more than 400 new cities that appear to have been linked by the world’s first known highway system, according to Reuters. The cities and infrastructure were previously hidden under dense jungles in northern Guatemala and southern Mexico, but have now been revealed through LiDAR data that allows researchers to see beneath the vegetation.
All of the newly discovered structures were built hundreds of years before the largest Maya states developed, Reuters noted. The study’s findings also included what appear to be “highways or superhighways” stretching for around 110 miles, the researchers noted.
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