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

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

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 city was identified unexpectedly when Tulane University archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas analysed lidar data used by TNC ...

Mexico's National Institute said about 6,479 structures were detected in LiDAR images covering an area of about 47 square miles. The technique maps landscapes using thousands of laser pulses sent ...