They found a massive complex of Mayan ruins in Guatamela. When I worked in advertising a few years ago one of the projects I was assigned to was a massive oil and energy consortium that had patent control over LiDAR technology (the tech they used to find this village). It was being used in military to potentially identify nuanced differences in scenery (so a group of soldiers would tour an area, and on the way back from touring if something was new in the general area of the road it would warn them). One of our demonstrated uses was discovering historical artifacts over large topographical areas that were obstructed by traditional cameras. Neat that's one of the things they've started using it for (Google ended up licensing the tech to scan building shapes for Google Maps, which was a pretty big waste of money IMO). Pretty neat technology. I'm glad they're not just using it for war shit anymore.
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