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.

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

Pristine colonial towns, crystal-clear lake waters, hand-painted pottery: You may not have heard of these Mexican ...

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 ...

Auld-Thomas and his colleagues, who published their findings Monday in the journal Antiquity, call the city Valeriana, after ...

(CNN) — For more than 1,000 years, dense forests in the Mexican state of Campeche concealed the region’s ancient human history. Scientists called Campeche an archaeological “blank spot” in ...