Researchers have named the new ancient city Valeriana, after a local lagoon. The discovery refutes previous assumptions ...

The technique, using thousands of laser pulses sent from a plane, can detect variations in topography that are not evident to ...

A HUGE ancient Mayan city, that had disappeared for centuries, has accidentally been found by a student using Google. Thousands of undiscovered structures have been located at the long-lost city ...

An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city ... a town where people have been actively farming among the ruins for years.” Studying such ancient cities ...

A huge ancient Mayan city that may have housed between 30,000 and 50,000 people at its peak between 750 and 850 AD was discovered in Mexico by accident thanks to Lidar technology. A team of ...

The discovery of what appears to have been a bustling urban landscape challenges the existing knowledge about the prevalence and density of ancient Mayan settlements. A Lidar image shows what ...

A graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico unexpectedly stumbled across a huge ancient Mayan city ...

Luke Auld-Thomas spotted the ancient Maya site in Campeche, overlooked by Mexican scientists, from old lidar data he was ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump ... and other Mayan infrastructure. For a long time, surveys to find ancient structures sampled ...

A graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico unexpectedly stumbled across a huge ancient Mayan city buried ... have been home to 30-50,000 people at its peak, probably ...