Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...
Laser surveys have revealed a massive centuries-old Maya city in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
How has nobody noticed this huge Maya city before?
A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...
The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.
Auld-Thomas and his colleagues, who published their findings Monday in the journal Antiquity, call the city Valeriana, after ...
In recent years, LiDAR laser scanning has allowed researchers to analyze large swaths of densely forested land in Mexico in ...
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 in a dense Mexican jungle by a doctoral student who unknowingly drove past the site years ago on a visit to Mexico. Tulane University ...