Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...
The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.
The technique, using thousands of laser pulses sent from a plane, can detect variations in topography that are not evident to ...
Mexico, which boasts at its heart a 30m-high (98ft) pyramid called the Temple of Kukulcán. There is also Temple IV, a 65m-tall (213ft) pyramid in the ruins of the ancient Maya city of Tikal in ...
Scientists called Campeche an archaeological “blank spot” in the Maya Lowlands, an area spanning what is now Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and southeastern Mexico, and which the Maya ...
A woman climbs up a pyramid Jan. 10, 2023, in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve at the Calakmul Mayan ruins in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. "Previous research has shown that a large part of the ...