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Mayan Empire Was More Densely Populated than Thought

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Surprising discovery: The Mayan Empire was apparently more densely populated and more complex than thought. Alone in the central Mayan lowland, up to 16 million people could have lived, as LIDAR mappings reveal. Mayan cities and settlements formed a dense, astoundingly uniform and hierarchically arranged network in the Yucatan rainforest. This suggests that the Mayan Empire was more populous than it previously suggested. For more than 2,000 year…
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Surprising discovery: The Mayan Empire was apparently more densely populated and more complex than thought. Alone in the central Mayan lowland, up to 16 million people could have lived, as LIDAR mappings reveal. Mayan cities and settlements formed a dense, astoundingly uniform and hierarchically arranged network in the Yucatan rainforest. This suggests that the Mayan Empire was more populous than it previously suggested. For more than 2,000 year…

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scinexx.de broke the news in on Tuesday, August 12, 2025.
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