A 2016 airborne laser survey over 2,144 square kilometers of northern Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve detected more than 60,000 previously hidden structures beneath dense jungle canopy. The ...

Airborne laser scanning across more than 2,100 square kilometers of dense jungle in northern Guatemala has exposed over 61,000 ancient Maya structures that were invisible to ground-based surveys. The ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists using an aerial remote-sensing method have discovered the largest and oldest-known structure built by the ancient Maya civilization - a colossal rectangular elevated ...

Airborne laser scanners that can peer through the jungle have revealed what may be the oldest and largest ancient Mayan structure ever found — a 3,000-year-old ceremonial platform almost a mile long ...

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 ...

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 ...

The surprising discovery of a 2,800-year-old monumental structure in Tabasco, Mexico, is shaking our conceptions of Maya civilization and its emergence as a cultural force. Using a technology called ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...