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Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways and amphitheatres in the southeastern state of Campeche .

They believe it is second in size only to Calakmul , thought to be the largest Mayan site in ancient Latin America .

The city may have been home to 30-50,000 people at its peak from 750 to 850 AD.

But I can't say we will do a project there," says Mr Auld-Thomas . " One of the downsides of discovering lots of new Maya cities in the era of Lidar is that there are more of them than we can ever hope to study," he adds. The research is published in the academic journal Antiquity ..

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