In 2016, an airborne laser survey stripped away the dense jungle canopy of northern Guatemala and exposed more than 61,000 ancient Maya structures that had gone undetected for centuries. The PACUNAM ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have uncovered over 6,500 previously unknown Maya structures, including a hidden city with grand pyramids, within ...

A graduate student discovered a hidden Maya city in Mexico using LIDAR technology, revealing 6,500 structures and a population of up to 50,000, altering perceptions of Mayan urbanisation.

Archaeologists have analyzed lidar data from a completely unstudied corner of the Maya world in Campeche, Mexico, revealing 6,674 undiscovered Maya structures, including pyramids like those at the ...

Two Tulane researchers, Marcello A. Canuto and Francisco Estrada-Belli, were part of a team of researchers, including assistant professor of anthropology Thomas Garrison at Ithaca College and other ...

Archaeologists using an old map of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have uncovered a lost Maya city, hidden until now, with thousands of buildings densely packed into a small area. The archaeological team ...

Can Maya monuments be fully relocated? Mexico’s Maya Train continues to stir controversy over its ecological and ...

During road construction in Kohunlich, archaeologists and workers found seven ancient structures once used by elite Maya families, photos show. Photo from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology ...

Researchers compared the newly discovered site of Valeriana to the well-known site of Calakmul in the Maya Lowlands. (photo via Wikimedia Commons) Archaeologists say they have found evidence of ...