a sensation. the vast rain forest canopy conceals an ancient world. researchers have once again delved into the jungle kingdom of the mayans this time equipped with twenty first century technology and what their aerial mapping has revealed is breathtaking. huge structures that will likely teach us new lessons about the mayan civilization. what's wonderful about this octomom lidar initiative is the scale of it it's twenty one hundred square kilometers so we're seeing these patterns not just in individual myositis but over these bassed region so must just a perspective that we haven't really had before and so the jungle is actually preserving but totality of this ancient civilization. the technology uses lasers that allow researchers to effectively peer through the overgrowth structure right