A Guatemalan flag it's pinned next to a map of the archaeological site El Mirador where a team from Guatemala's FARES anthropological research foundation has revealed in a new high-tech study that nearly 1,000 ancient Maya settlements, including 417 previously unknown sites linked by what may be the world's first highway network, are hidden by the dense jungles of northern Guatemala and southern Mexico, in Peten, Guatemala, January 17, 2023. REUTERS/Josue Decavele