Student discovers lost Mayan city in Mexico jungle by accident - City has ‘all the hallmarks of a Classic Maya political ...
Ruins of cities keep turning up in the forests of central America. How have these structures stayed standing for millennia?
Tulane doctoral candidate Luke Auld-Thomas used LiDAR laser mapping to uncover an ancient Maya city hidden by the forest in ...
The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.
The breakthrough came by accident when a researcher browsing Google found a laser survey done by a Mexican organisation for ...
Helped by laser technology, researchers reveal agricultural fields, sports courts, amphitheater, pyramids in dense area of ...
A major Mayan urban center has been found in a recent lidar survey on the Yucatan Peninsula that includes pyramids and ball ...
Researchers at Tulane University discovered the lost Mayan city of Valeriana in an area previously believed uninhabited.
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 ...
Two of the more than 6,000 Maya structures archaeologists recently discovered in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula include an ...
US students discover the long-lost Mayan City hidden deep inside the forest in Mexico.According to the Independent, the ...
An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city with thousands ... across the Yucatan peninsula in Central America and stumbling upon pyramids, family houses ...