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

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 ...

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

"So what if a lidar survey of this area already existed?" In 2018, Auld-Thomas, an instructor at Northern Arizona University, located data collected in 2013 in a project spearheaded by Mexico's ...

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

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

Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...

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

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

A lidar image of previously unknown Maya structures in Mexico. Image: Auld-Thomas et al., Antiquity 2024 However, lidar is expensive. That’s where an old map comes into play—a 2013 lidar ...

Archeologists in Mexico have discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana, hidden deep in the southern jungle of Campeche — a sprawling, urban settlement replete with ...