I DON'T WANT TO WAIT.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Oh. Damn, misread that. *rereads the article :P*

That is a good question.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I looked it up and apparently it's an uninhabited region. Crazy.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

O.O Well shucks.

[Freeky]

It seems to be a baby Khorne worshipping spider. A species of spider that decorates his home with the corpses of his victims.

At least it isn't a Nergle worshipper.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

That would be a crazy adventure to go on. Uninhabited lands. Finding strange new structures. Tearing them apart and putting them under glass. Wacky.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

One thing that's baffling me is, are there simply no natives there for the researchers to ask?

Nope.  All dead, from teensy spider bites.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

One thing that's baffling me is, are there simply no natives there for the researchers to ask?

Nope.  All dead, from teensy spider bites.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

One thing that's baffling me is, are there simply no natives there for the researchers to ask?

Nope.  All dead, from teensy spider bites.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That would be a crazy adventure to go on. Uninhabited lands. Finding strange new structures. Tearing them apart and putting them under glass. Wacky.

One of the interesting thing about Peru and much of Central and South America is that it was once pretty densely populated. It's just thick with ruins.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

That would be a crazy adventure to go on. Uninhabited lands. Finding strange new structures. Tearing them apart and putting them under glass. Wacky.

One of the interesting thing about Peru and much of Central and South America is that it was once pretty densely populated. It's just thick with ruins.

I know Mexico and Guatemala had huge populations.  I was never sure if South America had huge populations, or just a very, very long history of building & burying.  Thing is, Peru is about perfect for ruins to be preserved in (bodies, too, due to altitude and temperature).

But now that I'm actually thinking about it, some of those ruins would require a HUGE population base, on the order of, say, ancient Egypt, just to keep the logistics train running to build them (farming, foresting, etc), let alone have a functional society alongside the construction.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That would be a crazy adventure to go on. Uninhabited lands. Finding strange new structures. Tearing them apart and putting them under glass. Wacky.

One of the interesting thing about Peru and much of Central and South America is that it was once pretty densely populated. It's just thick with ruins.

I know Mexico and Guatemala had huge populations.  I was never sure if South America had huge populations, or just a very, very long history of building & burying.  Thing is, Peru is about perfect for ruins to be preserved in (bodies, too, due to altitude and temperature).

But now that I'm actually thinking about it, some of those ruins would require a HUGE population base, on the order of, say, ancient Egypt, just to keep the logistics train running to build them (farming, foresting, etc), let alone have a functional society alongside the construction.

Yeah, they're realizing now that there were more ruins there than they ever thought, it's just that the rapid and lush vegetation growth, and the moisture, concealed them well and quickly. http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/peru/machu-picchu/inca-ruins-photos/

[The Good Reverend Roger]

That would be a crazy adventure to go on. Uninhabited lands. Finding strange new structures. Tearing them apart and putting them under glass. Wacky.

One of the interesting thing about Peru and much of Central and South America is that it was once pretty densely populated. It's just thick with ruins.

I know Mexico and Guatemala had huge populations.  I was never sure if South America had huge populations, or just a very, very long history of building & burying.  Thing is, Peru is about perfect for ruins to be preserved in (bodies, too, due to altitude and temperature).

But now that I'm actually thinking about it, some of those ruins would require a HUGE population base, on the order of, say, ancient Egypt, just to keep the logistics train running to build them (farming, foresting, etc), let alone have a functional society alongside the construction.

Yeah, they're realizing now that there were more ruins there than they ever thought, it's just that the rapid and lush vegetation growth, and the moisture, concealed them well and quickly. http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/peru/machu-picchu/inca-ruins-photos/

Yeah, they just found another huge city (in the Yucatan, IIRC) via ground penetrating radar.

So obviously, they're going to be looking elsewhere.  Peru is an obvious choice.  So is the Middle East and the Gobi.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The ones at the link are mostly in Peru, where it isn't all that moist or lush, but the basic idea seems to be that it was that heavily populated all over the place, but most of the ruins aren't as visible as they are in Peru because of jungle growth.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That would be a crazy adventure to go on. Uninhabited lands. Finding strange new structures. Tearing them apart and putting them under glass. Wacky.

One of the interesting thing about Peru and much of Central and South America is that it was once pretty densely populated. It's just thick with ruins.

I know Mexico and Guatemala had huge populations.  I was never sure if South America had huge populations, or just a very, very long history of building & burying.  Thing is, Peru is about perfect for ruins to be preserved in (bodies, too, due to altitude and temperature).

But now that I'm actually thinking about it, some of those ruins would require a HUGE population base, on the order of, say, ancient Egypt, just to keep the logistics train running to build them (farming, foresting, etc), let alone have a functional society alongside the construction.

Yeah, they're realizing now that there were more ruins there than they ever thought, it's just that the rapid and lush vegetation growth, and the moisture, concealed them well and quickly. http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/peru/machu-picchu/inca-ruins-photos/

Yeah, they just found another huge city (in the Yucatan, IIRC) via ground penetrating radar.

So obviously, they're going to be looking elsewhere.  Peru is an obvious choice.  So is the Middle East and the Gobi.

That's neat! I should look that up.