Archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas found an old forest-monitoring lidar survey online and used it to reveal more than 6,500 previously unknown Maya structures in Campeche, Mexico. Among them was the vast ...

This video shows the ancient Maya city of Caracol in the Cayo District of Belize, surrounded by dense tropical forest that ...

Experts using an aerial high-tech laser scanner have discovered thousands of ancient Maya structures hidden under the thick jungle of northern Guatemala, officials said Thursday. Some 60,000 ...

Archaeologists have analyzed lidar data from a completely unstudied corner of the Maya world in Campeche, Mexico, revealing 6,674 undiscovered Maya structures, including pyramids like those at the ...

Two Tulane researchers, Marcello A. Canuto and Francisco Estrada-Belli, were part of a team of researchers, including assistant professor of anthropology Thomas Garrison at Ithaca College and other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the rise of lidar technology over the past few decades, the discovery of ancient settlements has risen dramatically. However, ...

Archaeologists using an old map of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have uncovered a lost Maya city, hidden until now, with thousands of buildings densely packed into a small area. The archaeological team ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lidar-created image showing the site with the ball court where parts of an underground structure were found. | Credit: ...

The ancient Maya are renowned for their mathematical mastery as calendar creators, pioneering astronomers, and pyramid ...

Researchers compared the newly discovered site of Valeriana to the well-known site of Calakmul in the Maya Lowlands. (photo via Wikimedia Commons) Archaeologists say they have found evidence of ...

When researchers excavated part of the ball court, they found a mysterious structure beneath it. Octavio Esparza Olguín Researchers have found a mysterious ancient structure beneath a Maya ball court ...

It's not every day that modern researchers uncover an ancient lost city. But for a network of scientists exploring Mexico's central Yucatan Peninsula, that very phenomenon is becoming so common that ...