A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler has excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt ...

Maya civilization has once again amazed researchers with a groundbreaking archaeological revelation that challenges our ...

A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity. The team was ...

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

With funding from the National Science Foundation, a team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler ...

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

Tulane researchers uncovered over 6,500 Maya structures in Mexico using lidar, revealing a complex settlement landscape and challenging previous assumptions about the Maya civilization’s urban and ...

A graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico unexpectedly stumbled across a huge ancient Mayan city ...

Archaeologists report that Valeriana contains significant features of a Classic Maya capital, including plazas connected by ...

A graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico unexpectedly unveiled a vast ancient Mayan city hidden beneath a dense ... originally collected by a research group studying ...

In recent years, researchers have been analysing data from lidar scans taken for unrelated purposes to look for evidence of Mayan structures. Ancient buildings and landscape modifications ...

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