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Mansoor witnesses the launch of DUBAI REEF’s deployment phase
Sheikh Mansoor Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Sports Council, today witnessed the landmark launch ...
An Archaeologist Made One of the Biggest Discoveries of Maya Civilization in the Most Unlikely Place
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 ...
The Daily Telegraph28d
Lost Mayan city discovered under Mexican jungle by accident
“Scientists in ecology, forestry and civil engineering ... “We also found a large city with pyramids right next to the area’s only highway, near a town where people have been actively ...
Thrillist on MSN11d
In Tulum, Skip the Tourist Traps and Lean Into These Adventures Instead
Phil Clarke Hill /Corbis News/Getty Images Not long ago, tourists considered Tulum to be one of the best-kept secrets in ...
Inverse28d
The Ancient Lost Maya City of Valeriana Had An Astronomical Site to Observe the Sun
More than 6,000 structures unveiled themselves to a team of archaeologists who looked through a 2013 ecological survey ... oriented north-south and a pyramid to the west. Auld-Thomas says this ...
Newsweek29d
Valeriana: Everything We Know About Mexican 'Lost City'
"Scientists in ecology, forestry and civil engineering ... multiple enclosed plazas connected by a broad causeway, temple pyramids, a ball court and a reservoir formed by damming an arroyo ...
London Review of Books13d
Lamentable Stick Figure
Not all accounts of prehistory have been quite so triumphant. According to Geroulanos, Rousseau was the first to articulate modernity’s fascination with the distant past. The idea of the state of ...
CBS News26d
Hidden Maya city discovered in Mexico jungle by doctoral student: "There's a lot more to be discovered"
"Scientists in ecology, forestry and civil engineering ... including a previously unknown large city complete with iconic stone pyramids. The team hadn't anticipated discovering an ancient city ...
Hidden Maya city discovered in Mexico jungle by doctoral student
"Scientists in ecology, forestry and civil engineering ... including a previously unknown large city complete with iconic ...
Hyperallergic28d
Ancient Maya City Discovered in Southeastern Mexico
Valeriana features several enclosed plazas linked by a wide road, temple pyramids, a ballcourt ... LiDAR datasets that had been collected for ecological and civil engineering purposes.
Artnet28d
Lost Mayan City Hidden Deep in the Mexican Jungle Revealed Using Laser Technology
What’s more, researchers can use LiDAR datasets collected for non-archaeological purposes, such as ecological monitoring and civil engineering. Valeriana, for example, emerged from a forest ...
Laser-based lidar tech is rewriting history — if climate change doesn't erase it first
More than a thousand years have passed since their heyday, however, and as humans continue to destroy our environment, ...