Laser-toting archaeologists have discovered an entire new city in the Central American jungle. National Geographic reported Thursday that researchers have uncovered proof that Mayan civilization ...

Using LIDAR, archeologists uncovered a settlement in eastern Ecuador rivaling the complexity of ancient civilizations found in Mexico and Central America.

For centuries, the dense jungles of Mexico’s Campeche state hid one of the Maya civilization’s best-kept secrets. Beneath ...

Another city, which had been partially mapped in 2012, revealed its true size in the Lidar scans. That city, Mahendraparvata, dates to early in the Khmer empire, around the ninth century, and was ...

The once-forgotten city was detected from the skies by LiDAR and contains pyramids, a ball court and spaces marked out by unusual stone columns.

Detailed photographs unveiled lost ancient mega cities MORE than 60,000 structures hidden for centuries underneath the jungle have been found. And it’s all thanks to these photos.

When Chris Fisher was working in Central America on an archaeological project, he began to notice his wild jungle surroundings becoming less wild. As he added necessary infrastructure to properly ...

A Mayan city lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico has been revealed. The discovery occurred in the southeastern state of Campeche, and archaeologists have named it Valeriana, after a nearby ...

In 2023, an ancient Maya city was found in the jungles of southern Mexico – once again lidar technology was key to this discovery.

In four days of flying over a jungle, archaeologists using lidar (light detection and ranging) surpassed the data they collected in 25 years of ground exploration.

To Avoid the Jungles of Central America, Migrants Are Taking a Treacherous Sea Route ‘Out there, in the open ocean, anything can happen.’ ...

Using LIDAR, archeologists uncovered a settlement in eastern Ecuador rivaling the complexity of ancient civilizations found in Mexico and Central America.