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DAVIDSON, NORTH CAROLINA—According to a Live Science report, a lidar survey of a 90-square mile area in Mexico’s hilly Puuc region, which is located on the northern Yucatan Peninsula, has revealed nearly 8,000 stone housing platforms, more than 1,200 ovens thought to have been used to make lime from limestone, artificial reservoirs to collect water for residential areas, and several farming terraces built by the Maya as early as 700 B.C. underneath the dense vegetation. “It seems to have...

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Details of stunning Maya acropolises and sophisticated civilization revealed by laser scans Laura Geggel © Provided by Live Science A 3D digital image of Labna, an ancient Maya structure in the Puuc region. By shooting billions of lasers at the ground, scientists have uncovered evidence of a sophisticated civilization left by the ancient Maya who lived in the northern Yucatán Peninsula in what is now Mexico, a new study finds. The laser survey revealed that in a region of th...