Archaeologists discovered Mayan previously unknown neighborhoods using randing software and light detection.

Archaeologists conduct excavations or surveys at the Mayan city of Tikal, Tikal is one of the largest cities of Mayan nearby Peten basin now a day Guatemala. From AD 200 to 900 the city was dominated militarily and economically. Mayan region politically, According to the Pacunam lidar study told, researchers have used lidar on the area to assumed to be natural hills, but the survey has related a large previous unknown neighborhood, the designed to look like structure in Teotihuacan, and also a most flourishing city of ancient Americas
archaeologists have concluded the two cities were contacted and often traded countries before Teotihuacan conquered Tikal around the year AD 378, with some evidence that Mayan elites lived in Teotihuacan, they exchange funerary rituals and culture between the two cities. but according to research they are not only traded, culturally influenced by the Tikal before conquering it. we are found very much complex architecture have been built by people from Teotihuacan or those under their control, the structure was designed on a smaller scale that built Teotihuacan's citadel, with some adjacent complex of the residential building, And archeology is found projectile points crafted with flint, the material commonly used by residents of Teotihuacan, green obsidian, Maya

Stephen Houston;
Brown university anthropology professor said; we show the conformed the shape of the citadel of Teotihuacan. regardless of who/why built this smaller scall replica, and it shows, without doubt, the interaction between Tikal and Teotihuacan than previously believed. we combine previous research of our lost findings are suggests something like occupation or surveillance. In the middle of the citadel, we have found some burials of many individuals dressed as warriors, and they are all sacrificed the placed have mass graves. the more he hopes they will understand Teotihuacan’s presence in Tikal — and, more broadly, how its imperial power changed the diverse cultural and political landscape in Mesoamerica.
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