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

Tulane doctoral candidate Luke Auld-Thomas used LiDAR laser mapping to uncover an ancient Maya city hidden by the forest in ...

Ancient buildings and landscape modifications ... An extravagantly decorated ‘tiny house’ discovered in Pompeii The lost city has “all the hallmarks of a Classic Maya political capital”, Mr ...

Tugunbulak could have housed as many as 5,000 residents with the only source of food being pastured animals or what could be ...

Archeologists in Mexico have discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana, hidden deep in the southern ...

An ancient Maya city has emerged from the heart of the Mexican jungle, not through a traditional dig, but thanks to an ...

The city had two major centers and included temple pyramids, amphitheaters, and a reservoir. A historically and culturally ...

Using lidar technology, Tulane University researchers have uncovered thousands of unexplored Maya structures, including a large city with pyramids ... in Mexico and a better understanding of the ...

The fortified city, called al-Natah, was home to at least 500 people who were once nomads, but constructed at least 50 multi-story buildings in 2400 BC. The ancient civilization built giant tombs ...

For more than 1,000 years, dense forests in the Mexican state of Campeche concealed the region’s ancient human history ... of ...

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

A long-lost huge Maya city, hidden under a jungle canopy in Mexico ... Antiquity which provides a better understanding of the ancient civilisation's extent and complexity. "I was on something ...