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Emily Olson

How scientists lasered in on a 'monumental' Maya city — with actual lasers

A relief carved on a block in a stairway, one of the many exciting artifacts uncovered at Ocomtun in May. (Octavio Esparza Olguin/National Autonomous University of Mexico)

It's not every day that modern researchers uncover an ancient lost city.

But for a network of scientists exploring Mexico's central Yucatan Peninsula, that very phenomenon is becoming so common that it's become the butt of a joke.

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