Maya civilization has once again amazed researchers with a groundbreaking archaeological revelation that challenges our ...

And one of their survey blocks which was intended to map trees had actually mapped trees growing on top of a really large ...

Using advanced scanning technology, researchers have located a major Maya site in the thick jungle of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

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

A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...

Ruins of cities keep turning up in the forests of central America. How have these structures stayed standing for millennia?

An analysis of data covering an understudied area has revealed thousands of previously unknown Maya structures.

Archaeologists have analyzed lidar data from a completely unstudied corner of the Maya world in Campeche, Mexico, revealing 6 ...

Lidar surveys are very useful in Mesoamerican archaeology, where swaths of jungle can quickly swallow up entire cities. Three years ago, a separate team mapped 30,000 square miles (78,000 square ...

A sprawling Maya city with palaces and pyramids was discovered ... The previous team's aim was to map above-ground carbon in forests. The publicly available dataset allowed Auld-Thomas' research ...

A student found a lost Maya city the size of Washington, D.C. buried under the thick jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

The technique maps landscapes using thousands of lasers pulses sent from ... said the extensive data they’ve collected will ...