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 ...

The once-forgotten city was detected from the skies by LiDAR and contains pyramids, ... (7,722 square miles) of Central American jungle and been involved in 45 archaeological projects, ...

An estimated 90 percent of human Amazonian history is lost within the jungle itself. A new discovery has uncovered a small-but-substantial piece of that history. Using LIDAR, ... and Central America.

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

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.

Lasers revealed a large settlement—rivaling even Mayan societies in complexity—that had been hidden for centuries.

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.

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 ...

This jungle expedition has a technical aspect that got my attention—the use of airborne light detection and ranging (LIDAR) on an incredibly dense and unexplored, 20,000 square mile patch of the ...

A new Mayan city, lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico for centuries, has been discovered from the computer of a PhD student hundreds of miles away. This is the story of how he did it.

The iconic Angkor Wat temple rises from the jungle in modern-day Cambodia. (Credit: Bule Sky Studio/Shutterstock) A wide-ranging aerial study of archeological sites in Cambodia reveals a Khmer empire ...