The Mayan civilization ... registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980 for its historical value. A 4km-long Mayan tunnel was discovered in Copan, and a 3D map of it has been made available ...

In this new archaeological study, Arthur Demarest brings the lost pre-Columbian civilization of the Maya to life. In applying a holistic perspective to the most recent evidence from archaeology, ...

Archaeologists increasingly recognize that the world's tropics and ... pioneered the use of lidar to map a Mayan city, revolutionizing the way ancient civilizations are detected and studied.

“For the longest time,” Auld-Thomas said, “our sample of the Maya civilization was a couple of hundred square kilometers total. That sample was hard won by archaeologists who painstakingly ...

Archaeologists have analyzed lidar data from a completely unstudied corner of the Maya world in Campeche ... our sample of the Maya civilization was a couple of hundred square kilometers total ...

He would use pre-existing surveys to find out if Maya civilizations could be located ... The previous team's aim was to map above-ground carbon in forests. The publicly available dataset allowed ...

An archaeology student discovered a major Mayan civilization hidden under the Mexican jungle using a LiDAR dataset he stumbled upon during a Google search. “I was on something like page 16 of [a ...

via REUTERS Valeriana was discovered by chance thanks to Lidar, or Light Detection and Ranging, a technology that uses lasers to map and analyze ... The classical-era Maya civilization dates ...

And one of their survey blocks which was intended to map trees had actually ... like the edge of a building. Because Maya architecture in this part of the world is so well preserved and the ...

The Maya civilization peaked between 250 and 900 AD and was a complex society that flourished in the tropical lowlands of what is now Central America and Mexico. The civilizations were highly ...

Beyond it lie the ruins of an old Maya city, barely a 15-minute walk from the busy roadway but until now unknown to archaeologists, its secrets cloaked over the centuries by unchecked foliage.