A new Mayan city, lost in the dense jungle of southern ... and invented hieroglyphic writing and the concept of the number zero with hardly any tools. The dense rainforest surrounding Tikal ...

Auld-Thomas and his colleagues, who published their findings Monday in the journal Antiquity, call the city Valeriana, after ...

Tulane researchers uncovered over 6,500 Maya structures in Mexico using lidar, revealing a complex settlement landscape and challenging previous assumptions about the Maya civilization’s urban and ...

Tulane doctoral candidate Luke Auld-Thomas used LiDAR laser mapping to uncover an ancient Maya city hidden by the forest in ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

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 ...

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 ...

But part of that region is blank no longer. Archaeologists have found thousands of never-before-seen Maya structures as well as a large city that they named Valeriana after a nearby lagoon ...

A graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico unexpectedly unveiled a vast ancient Mayan city hidden beneath a dense jungle in Campeche on the Gulf of Mexico. The findings, ...

NEW ORLEANS — Archaeologists using laser-sensing technology detected what may be an ancient Mayan city cloaked by jungle in southern Mexico, authorities said Wednesday. The lost city ...