An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city with thousands of undiscovered structures, including pyramids, under a Mexican forest.The data came from laser scans ...
Archaeologists have revealed an ancient lost Mayan city using advanced laser mapping technology, unearthing monumental structures such as pyramids and plazas. Named Valeriana, the city is believed to ...
The city of Tugunbulak, which stretched beyond the ... But it’s going to take a long time before we know anything for sure. Lidar drone mapping saved Frachetti’s team roughly a decade ...
The settlement was particularly dense, more so than any ancient city in Belize or Guatemala. The study lists 6,764 structures in the area. Airborne LiDAR surveys have "emerged as a powerful tool ...
Archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas used LiDAR data related to carbon monitoring to discover a lost Maya city. Auld-Thomas’ work helped locate an estimated 6,600 buildings only 15 minutes from a current ...
A map shows details of the Valeriana site's core in Campeche state, Mexico. The Maya city is among numerous archaeological features revealed by an analysis of data from LiDAR, which involves laser ...