The jungles of Honduras reveal a new secret

LIDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, is a relatively new technology available to archaeologists to investigate ancient landscapes that are both remote and large in scale. In many parts o the world that hold vestiiges of ancient civilizations, archaeological "discoveries" are mostly those sites that were known to local or indigenous communities (through first-hand knowledge or oral histories) but were simply verified by western scientific investigation. A recent discovery in the remote jungles of Honduras, however, using LIDAR seems to be the real deal—a remote Mayan site that truly had been list to time.

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An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rainforest

By Douglas Preston

The New Yorker

January 1, 2017