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.
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 ...
Using advanced scanning technology, researchers have located a major Maya site in the thick jungle of Mexico’s Yucatán ...
Pristine colonial towns, crystal-clear lake waters, hand-painted pottery: You may not have heard of these Mexican ...
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 architectural ...
The Calakmul Temple, in Campeche, Mexico, in 2022. A Maya city researchers named Valeriana has been discovered nearby.Credit...Adrian Wilson for The New York Times “So I just set about digging ...