Beyond the Mexican peninsula’s famous coast lies a spectacular, less-visited land of Mayan ruins, secret pools and somnolent villages ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Archaeologists using laser-sensing technology have detected what may be an ancient Mayan city cloaked by jungle in southern Mexico, authorities said Wednesday. The lost city ...

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

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

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

WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the middle of the jungle of ...

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

For more than 1,000 years, dense forests in the Mexican state of Campeche concealed the region’s ancient human history. Scientists called Campeche an archaeological “blank spot” in the Maya ...

For more than 1,000 years, dense forests in the Mexican state of Campeche concealed the region’s ancient human history. Scientists called Campeche an archaeological “blank spot” in the Maya Lowlands, ...

While combing through detailed three-dimensional LiDAR maps of areas covered in dense vegetation, an archeologist uncovered a lost Mayan city called Valeriana ... "And so maybe the entire system ...

The system calculates the light pulses’ two-way travel time to ... “For the longest time, our sample of the Maya civilisation was a couple of hundred square kilometres total,” Luke Auld-Thomas, the ...