Archaeologists have revealed an ancient lost Mayan city using advanced laser mapping technology, unearthing monumental ...

While combing through detailed three-dimensional LiDAR maps of areas covered in dense vegetation ... The popular tourist ...

Maya civilization has once again amazed researchers with a groundbreaking archaeological revelation that challenges our ...

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

With these major obstacles in mind, the GAP created a complete map of the site by conducting a lidar scan in December 2022, given that it is a tested and trusted archaeological approach to large-scale ...

Scientists were surprised to find a medieval metropolis atop mountains, providing new insights into life along the ancient trade route. “This changes everything we thought we knew.” ...

used drone-based lidar to map the archaeological scale and layout of two recently discovered high-elevation sites in Uzbekistan. The medieval cities are among the largest ever documented in the ...

Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA As airborne lidar surveys reveal a ... thus not subject to ...

Using drone-based lidar, researchers mapped two medieval cities, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, in Uzbekistan, revealing detailed urban structures significant to the Silk Road's history. The first use of d ...

A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico. Archaeologists found ...

"It would have taken us a decade to map such large sites manually." Frachetti and graduate students in his Spatial Analysis, Interpretation, and Exploration (SAIE) Lab compiled the drone-lidar ...