listen man….. Throwing the PhD in the headline makes it even funnier now that he’s been found
Isn’t there a horror movie about something like this?
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmznzkly3go) reduced by 88%. (I’m a bot) ***** > A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico.
> When Mr Auld-Thomas processed the data with methods used by archaeologists, he saw what others had missed – a huge ancient city which may have been home to 30-50,000 people at its peak from 750 to 850 AD. That is more than the number of people who live in the region today, the researchers say.
> There are no known pictures of the lost city because "No-one has ever been there", the researchers say, although local people may have suspected there were ruins under the mounds of earth.
It’s crazy to me that if something were to happen and America was annihilated somehow that thousands of years in the future someone who scan my neighborhood and be so interested that someone lived there…but it’s just my shitty townhome I play video games in.
What’s this guys doctorate in? Honesty?
Yeah, accidentally dragged your LIDAR gear out there looking to scan some trees, right. /s
Unfortunately, his PhD thesis was on lost suburbs.
This headline has a critical typo:
‘PhD student’s supervisor finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident’
That can’t be a real picture of it. Would’ve been found from space.
There are still many wonders yet to be discovered on earth !
Indiana Jones ahh
Archeology by accident?
Wouldn’t say it was by accident when you have the tools available to find them, and then go out looking for them.
Lidar by accident?
It’s amazing how on this day of satellites and Google Earth and what else there’s still whole lost cities waiting to be found.
And on the surface. I wonder about stuff buried underground or submerged under the sea.
As someone who has been to this area several times this is not surprising at all. If you climb to the top of the Nohoch Mul pyramid you can look across the jungle in 360 degrees and see several other sets of ruins (included structures of similar height protruding above the canopy) that are still overgrown. Peru is also still finding Quechua (Inca) ruins and they have a much better program to find, research, and restore them than Mexico does.
That guy is super cursed now.
Eh, it happens.
🎶It’s tough to be a god🎶
That looks like from Dawn to Dusk…
This is a lot better than the usual “PhD student killed in Mexico by cartel because of wrong place/wrong time”
How cool
What was the student expecting to find?
Whelp, time to go looting.
Mexica had an estimated population of 5-8 million people.
He got lost and found it.
Cartels: and it’s gonna stay lost, click-clack
This is cool! Josh Gates must be doing cartwheels right about now.
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It’s alway the last place you look
Was it by accident if he was there on purpose?
listen man….. Throwing the PhD in the headline makes it even funnier now that he’s been found
Isn’t there a horror movie about something like this?
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmznzkly3go) reduced by 88%. (I’m a bot)
*****
> A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico.
> When Mr Auld-Thomas processed the data with methods used by archaeologists, he saw what others had missed – a huge ancient city which may have been home to 30-50,000 people at its peak from 750 to 850 AD. That is more than the number of people who live in the region today, the researchers say.
> There are no known pictures of the lost city because "No-one has ever been there", the researchers say, although local people may have suspected there were ruins under the mounds of earth.
*****
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It’s crazy to me that if something were to happen and America was annihilated somehow that thousands of years in the future someone who scan my neighborhood and be so interested that someone lived there…but it’s just my shitty townhome I play video games in.
What’s this guys doctorate in? Honesty?
Yeah, accidentally dragged your LIDAR gear out there looking to scan some trees, right. /s
Unfortunately, his PhD thesis was on lost suburbs.
This headline has a critical typo:
‘PhD student’s supervisor finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident’
That can’t be a real picture of it. Would’ve been found from space.
There are still many wonders yet to be discovered on earth !
Indiana Jones ahh
Archeology by accident?
Wouldn’t say it was by accident when you have the tools available to find them, and then go out looking for them.
Lidar by accident?
It’s amazing how on this day of satellites and Google Earth and what else there’s still whole lost cities waiting to be found.
And on the surface. I wonder about stuff buried underground or submerged under the sea.
As someone who has been to this area several times this is not surprising at all. If you climb to the top of the Nohoch Mul pyramid you can look across the jungle in 360 degrees and see several other sets of ruins (included structures of similar height protruding above the canopy) that are still overgrown. Peru is also still finding Quechua (Inca) ruins and they have a much better program to find, research, and restore them than Mexico does.
That guy is super cursed now.
Eh, it happens.
🎶It’s tough to be a god🎶
That looks like from Dawn to Dusk…
This is a lot better than the usual “PhD student killed in Mexico by cartel because of wrong place/wrong time”
How cool
What was the student expecting to find?
Whelp, time to go looting.
Mexica had an estimated population of 5-8 million people.
He got lost and found it.
Cartels: and it’s gonna stay lost, click-clack
This is cool! Josh Gates must be doing cartwheels right about now.
I’d give them their PhD just for that.
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