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 Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS) received funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation ...

Archaeologists have long known about ancient urban sites in the Maya Lowlands of southern Mexico. But this discovery was somewhat unexpected. Luke Auld-Thomas, an archaeologist at Tulane University, ...

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

The topographic map indicates that Valeriana was structured with residential ... such fieldwork will deepen the understanding ...

The settlements, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, are among the largest ever documented in the mountainous parts of the Silk Road, playing a strategic role in trade and iron production.

The rapidly firing laser travels to the ground where it hits vegetation, building, and various topographic features ... data to generate an elevation map of Earth. — LiDAR data is originally gathered ...