Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

A map shows the layout of X’baatún’s core ... into forgotten 400-year-old vault unearthed at church in France Ancient Maya communities lived at X’baatún beginning as early as 300 B.C ...

Most of the ancient Maya archaeological site of El Ceibal ... for light detection and ranging, to map an unprecedented 470-square kilometers — roughly the same size as the city of Scottsdale ...

Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital ...

LiDAR, he added, “allows us to map large areas very quickly ... “LiDAR is teaching us that, like many other ancient civilizations, the lowland Maya built a diverse tapestry of towns and ...

A graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico unexpectedly stumbled across a huge ancient Mayan city buried ... ranging equipment. LiDAR maps are used by a wide range ...

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 ancient Mayan urbanization and settlement ...