LiDAR Scans Reveal Maya Were Far Bigger and More Complex Than Thought

FTA: Discover  summary of a Science paper

:  “It’s amazing. It’s so new. This is the kind of thing that no one ever suspected to show up,” says Michael Coe, a Yale University archaeologist and Maya scholar who’s not involved with the team. “It’s a major discovery.”

my comment: Looking back through my links on this blog, this has been a recurring theme recently.  It takes awhile before things change from TPT to common knowledge.