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

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

Anthropologists have peered through the thick jungle of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and identified a long-lost Maya city with ...

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

Archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas used LiDAR data related to carbon monitoring to discover a lost Maya city. Auld-Thomas’ work ...

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

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

Ruins of cities keep turning up in the forests of central America. How have these structures stayed standing for millennia?

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

No, this isn’t a plot from Indiana Jones: An ancient Maya city that’s been lost for centuries was just uncovered in Mexico.

Like other large capital cities from Maya sites, Valeriana had a reservoir, a ball court, temple pyramids and a broad road connecting enclosed plazas. In total, the researchers identified 6,764 ...

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