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Published online 1 April 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030331-1
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Ancient civilization goes online
Internet Mesoamerica archive should aid virtual excavation.
Archaeologists could soon be making discoveries about the Maya from their computers. The first stage of a new online database is set to go live later this year, housing hundreds of thousands of documents on the excavation of Tikal, one of the most important settlements in ninth-century Mesoamerica.
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