“We didn’t just find rural areas and smaller settlements. We also found a large city with pyramids right next to the area’s only highway, near a town where people have been actively farming ...

Analyzing the data, researchers discovered a large city on the Yucatan peninsula with thousands of buildings, including pyramids, that has “all the hallmarks of a Classic Maya political capital ...

A major Mayan urban center has been found in a recent lidar survey on the Yucatan Peninsula that includes pyramids and ball ...

Archeologists have been using laser scanning lidar technology to assess anomalies in landscapes across the Yucatan peninsula ...

A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...

Ruins of cities keep turning up in the forests of central America. How have these structures stayed standing for millennia?

An analysis of data covering an understudied area has revealed thousands of previously unknown Maya structures.

Instead of hacking through dense vegetation, researchers used existing, very precise laser scans of the land surface to ...

Laser surveys have revealed a massive centuries-old Maya city in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

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 scans ...