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

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

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

Archeologists in Mexico have discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana, hidden deep in the southern ...

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

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown Maya city in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula after they used laser imaging of the ...

In recent years, LiDAR laser scanning has allowed researchers to analyze large swaths of densely forested land in Mexico in ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Tulane University researchers have used data from laser based ...

NBC News' Marissa Parra reports on a newly discovered Maya city in Mexico, which researchers found by accident and estimate ...

Lidar surveys are very useful in Mesoamerican archaeology, where swaths of jungle can quickly swallow up entire cities. Three years ago, a separate team mapped 30,000 square miles (78,000 square ...

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Archeologists in Mexico have discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana, hidden deep in the southern jungle of Campeche — a sprawling, urban settlement replete with ...