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 ...

Every little piece we can obtain from the excavations is fundamental, like a piece of the larger puzzle we are putting ...

Valeriana, with its dense settlement patterns, joins an array of ancient Maya cities that have only recently ... has enabled ...

In 2009, archaeologists Diane and Arlen Chase of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, pioneered the use of lidar to map a Mayan city, revolutionizing the way ancient civilizations are detected and ...

A HUGE ancient Mayan city, that had disappeared for centuries ... They used Lidar scanning technology, which fires lasers from a plane to map a covered site, to find these structures.

Archaeologists have uncovered a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in northern Guatemala, revealing a treasure trove of ...

Laser imaging of the rainforests of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula have turned up thousands of ancient Maya structures — and an entire previously unknown city ... us to map large areas very ...

Archeologists in Mexico have discovered a huge, lost Mayan ... of ancient Mayan settlements. A Lidar image shows what archeologists in Mexico say is a newly discovered lost Mayan city, which ...