Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...

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

A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...

Explore Campeche, a hidden gem in the Yucatan Peninsula and one of the best Mexico travel destinations. This Campeche travel ...

Auld-Thomas and his colleagues, who published their findings Monday in the journal Antiquity, call the city Valeriana, after ...

Mexico, which boasts at its heart a 30m-high (98ft) pyramid called the Temple of Kukulcán. There is also Temple IV, a 65m-tall (213ft) pyramid in the ruins of the ancient Maya city of Tikal in ...

A woman climbs up a pyramid Jan. 10, 2023, in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve at the Calakmul Mayan ruins in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. "Previous research has shown that a large part of the ...

An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city with thousands of undiscovered structures, including pyramids, under a Mexican forest. The data came from laser scans ...

Scientists called Campeche an archaeological “blank spot” in the Maya Lowlands, an area spanning what is now Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and southeastern Mexico, and which the Maya ...

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