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LiDAR Reveals Hidden Inca Road Network Across the River from Machu Picchu
More than 2.5 kilometers of previously undocumented roads have emerged from beneath the rainforest surrounding Machu Picchu, revealing human activity in an area long overshadowed by the famous Inca citadel. The roads were identified on the slopes of Yanantin Mountain, across the Urubamba River from the main archaeological complex. Drone-mounted LiDAR also detected unknown terraces,…
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Raknehaugen May Not Be a Royal Burial After All—Study Points to Catastrophic Origin
Raknehaugen, one of the largest prehistoric mounds in Scandinavia, has long been interpreted as the burial place of a powerful Iron Age elite. Yet despite more than a century of excavation, no confirmed grave has ever been identified within the monument in Norway. A new study suggests that this enormous structure may not have been…