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 ...

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 ...

While combing through detailed three-dimensional LiDAR maps of areas covered in dense vegetation, an archeologist uncovered a lost Mayan city called Valeriana in the jungles of southern Mexico.

The city of "Los Abuelos" takes its name from two human-like sculptures of an "ancestral couple" found at the site.

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.