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

WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the middle of the jungle of ...

In what is being deemed as an archaeological breakthrough, the recent discovery of a lost, and very large Mayan City complete ...

Using lidar technology, researchers surveyed 50 square miles of Campeche, Mexico, discovering an entire previously unknown ...

Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...

OKAY, THIS IS ACTUALLY QUITE DENSE, AND THAT MEANS THAT WHEREVER WE LOOK, THERE’S A GOOD CHANCE THAT THESE THINGS ARE GOING ...

The new city, dubbed Valeriana, was a dense urban settlement with temple pyramids and a ball court. Laser surveys have ...

Auld-Thomas saw an opportunity and decided to take a shot. He and his colleagues from Tulane University and Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History re-processed the 2013 lidar data ...

The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.

Its imposing palaces, extensive administrative buildings, and temples filled with expressive bas-relief sculptures set Palenque apart from other Maya sites in Mexico, and it even rivals the ...

During a random Google search, a researcher stumbled on a laser survey done by a Mexican environmental organization. What it ...