Dr. James Fitzsimmons
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There's way more.
So new things are being found almost every year.
These are the things that show up on your Google feed late at like two in the morning or something like, you know, found amazing city.
That's kind of the stuff that gets found.
I mean, I used to work at a place.
Again, that place says Jaguar Hill.
That was a lost city.
We were looking at Peter Snyder's, my first graduate project, like with the sweat bath and all that stuff.
We didn't know where it was.
We were looking for that thing.
We couldn't find it, right?
Couldn't find it.
Fast forward years later, we were looking at some glyphs and the glyphs started showing up and saying, oh, this is, you know, we started to figure out, okay, well, this is where the city is.
One of my advisors at the time, David Stewart, figured out that Jaguar Hill was this place.
He didn't need LIDAR.
He just was looking at reading and looking at inscriptions and being like, oh, this is where that is.
Um, I think there's really nothing like going and finding something like this and being like, oh, it's, you know, this is a, uh, you're reading something and you uncover something and no one's read this for 2000 years or whatever it is, you know, and you being the first person to read it, there's no feeling like that in the world.
Like being like, oh my God, you know, it's like this, it's something new, right?
Um, whether it's something mundane, like,