Uncover the secrets of Mexico's Mayan ruins, from Chichen Itza to Calakmul, these sites offer a glimpse into an ancient ...

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 current ...

A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico. Archaeologists found ...

While there are no pictures of the city, it may have looked similar to ruins in Calakmul Working with colleagues, he studied the maps and found a dense, vast array of totally unstudied Maya ...

"This density is comparable to that of Mayan sites such as Calakmul, Oxpemul and Becán ... "The nature of the ruins, the archeological buildings that were there — they were big and they ...

Beyond it lie the ruins of an old Maya city ... “mix of deliberation and serendipity.” The Calakmul Temple, in Campeche, Mexico, in 2022. A Maya city researchers named Valeriana has been ...

Surveying an area of 50 square miles, the study revealed more than 6,000 structures, including stone pyramids similar to those found at the most famous sites of Mayan ruins. The dense jungle kept ...

Instead of hacking through dense vegetation, researchers used existing, very precise laser scans of the land surface to identify a "dense, diverse array of totally unstudied Maya settlements".

They believe it is second in density only to Calakmul, thought to be the largest Maya site in ancient Latin ... people may have suspected there were ruins under the mounds of earth.

They believe it is second in density only to Calakmul, thought to be ... also contributed to eradication of Maya city states. Evidence of the ruins were found by a plane using laser remote sensing ...