Researchers Discover New Information About The 1500- year- old Mayan Civilization That Astonished The Whole World

Many More Mayans

“The LiDAR images make it clear that this entire region was a settlement system whose scale and population density had been grossly underestimated,” Garrison said. Going by the findings, Garrison could tell that the Mayan population was far more than they previously thought it was which was estimated to be between 1 million and 2 million. But after the discovery, we could tell that the Mayan population was around 20 million.