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Podcast: ζθεΈ«ιͺδ½ ζ’η΄’θ±ζδΈη Exploring English with Ms. Lee
Episode: EP185 | πη¬ε€θΆδ½ζ₯ηε士ηζε€ηΌηΎε€±θ½ηε€ηͺι
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Description: Imagine discovering a lost city while you are pulling an all-nighter to finish your history paper. Thatβs what happened to an archeology student studying in Tulane University in Louisiana. Luke Auld-Thomas, a doctoral student at Tulane spotted the ancient Mayan site in the scans collected by NASA using lidar, a technology that uses airborne lasers to penetrate dense vegetation. The ruins were unknown to archaeologists, but some farmers living in that region of Mexico were aware of the siteβs existence. Luke and his colleagues named the lost city Valeriana, after a nearby lagoon. They estimated the city...