Archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas used LiDAR data related to carbon monitoring to discover a lost Maya city. Auld-Thomas’ work helped locate an estimated 6,600 buildings only 15 minutes from a ...

An archaeology student discovered a major Mayan civilization hidden under the Mexican jungle using a LiDAR dataset he stumbled upon during a Google search. “I was on something like page 16 of [a ...

Early scans show that the city was once the size of an ancient Maya capital — with multiple plazas, temples, a reservoir and even a ball court.

Archeologists in Mexico have discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana, hidden deep in the southern jungle of Campeche — a sprawling, urban settlement replete with ...

Last year, Luke Auld-Thomas, a researcher specializing in Mayan settlements at Tulane University in New Orleans, was poring over a Mexican environmental monitoring survey, when he spotted ...

Scientists called Campeche an archaeological “blank spot” in the Maya Lowlands, an area spanning what is now Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and southeastern Mexico, and which the Maya ...

High childbirth costs leave insured middle-class families with crippling debt. And an ancient Mayan city is discovered beneath the jungle. Here’s what to know today. With a week until Election ...

Your support makes all the difference. An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city with thousands of undiscovered structures, including pyramids, under a ...

A lost Mayan city, complete with pyramids and a ball court, has been discovered buried deep under the Mexican jungle. The city, which has been named Valeriana by archaeologists, was found by ...

Through historic artifacts and contemporary Indigenous artwork, LACMA’s exhibition, “We Live in Painting”, celebrates the ...

More than 6,600 structures linked to the Maya civilisation have been found in the southern state of Campeche on the Yucatan Peninsula. Experts analysed lidar data, a method of scanning the land ...

Lillie Coit, William Randolph Hearst, Ruth Asawa, Maya Angelou, Cyril Magnin: San Francisco is a town of iconoclasts. Of all the ingredients essential to the magic of our city — the stunning ...