Using advanced scanning technology, researchers have located a major Maya site in the thick jungle of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

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.

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

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.

Tulane researchers uncovered over 6,500 Maya structures in Mexico using lidar, revealing a complex settlement landscape and challenging previous assumptions about the Maya civilization’s urban and ...

Marcello Canuto: Generally speaking, the archaeological community agrees that climate change played a role in the collapse of Maya civilization in the Classic Lowlands. However, it was not a total ...

With funding from the National Science Foundation, a team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler ...

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

An analysis of data covering an understudied area has revealed thousands of previously unknown Maya structures.