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What did Central America look like at the height of the Mayan civilization? Probably different than you think.
NASA Earth Observatory images created by Jesse Allen, using model data provided courtesy of Jed Kaplan of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (800-950 and 1500-1650) and Kees Klein Goldewijk, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (HYDE data, 2000). Caption by Holli Riebeek.
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