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El Mirador, the Lost City of the Maya

Nightfall at La Danta pyramid. "When the Maya walked away, they left everything in place," says Hansen, who believes El Mirador's residents abandoned the city after they ruined their ecosystem by clearing too much of the forest.

Christian Ziegler

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