This groundbreaking discovery challenges traditional assumptions about the Maya civilization's scale and complexity. Using innovative laser mapping technology, researchers have unveiled a city that ...

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

Using lidar technology, researchers surveyed 50 square miles of Campeche, Mexico, discovering an entire previously unknown ...

WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the middle of the jungle of ...

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.

Archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas used LiDAR data related to carbon monitoring to discover a lost Maya city. Auld-Thomas’ work helped locate an estimated 6,600 buildings only 15 minutes from a current ...

Using lidar, researchers discovered 6,500 Maya structures hidden in Mexico’s jungles, including pyramids and vast city ...

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

The city spans an area similar in size to Beijing, signalling its role as a likely political center of the Maya civilization ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Over the millennia that the Chinese nation was building its rich and enduring civilization in East Asia, the people of Latin America were shaping the vibrant cultures of the Maya, Inca, and Aztec ...