How a PhD Student Discovered a Lost Mayan City From Hundreds of Miles Away
And how did Tulane University graduate student Luke Auld-Thomas find it? The answer lies in lasers. Until recently, ...
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Hidden Maya city discovered in Mexico jungle by doctoral student: "There's a lot more to be discovered"
The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.
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Scientist Accidentally Discovers Ancient Mayan City While Browsing Web
Using cutting-edge laser mapping tech, archeologists have uncovered a lost Mayan city in the jungles of southern Mexico. As ...
Scientists Have Discovered a “Lost” Mayan Megacity, Complete With Hidden Pyramids
Tulane researchers uncovered over 6,500 Maya structures in Mexico using lidar, revealing a complex settlement landscape and ...
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An Archaeologist Made One of the Biggest Discoveries of Maya Civilization in the Most Unlikely Place
Archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas used LiDAR data related to carbon monitoring to discover a lost Maya city. Auld-Thomas’ work helped locate an estimated 6,600 buildings only 15 minutes from a current ...
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Scientists detect traces of an ancient Mayan city in southern Mexico using laser-sensor technology
Cancel anytime. New research published by Tulane University doctoral student Luke Auld-Thomas and his advisor, Professor Marcello Canuto shows more than 6,500 structures found in a jungle near ...
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Major Lost Maya City Discovered While Searching Google
Archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas used LiDAR data related to carbon monitoring to discover a lost Maya city. Auld-Thomas’ work helped locate an estimated 6,600 buildings only 15 minutes from a ...
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Photographs uncover mysterious lost city in the Mexican jungle
Lidar survey data reveals ancient Maya buildings clustered on a hilltop. Picture: Luke Auld-Thomas/Antiquity The enormous hidden complex was found using the laser mapping technology Lidar ...
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Ancient Mayan city discovered via page 16 of Google search results
Who ever goes beyond page one of Google search results? Well, Luke Auld-Thomas did, and it led to the discovery of a lost ...
Have we found all the major Maya cities? Not even close, new research suggests
Archaeologists have analyzed lidar data from a completely unstudied corner of the Maya world in Campeche, Mexico, revealing 6 ...
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Lost Mayan City Discovered Using 'Found' Laser Imaging Data
During a random Google search, a researcher stumbled on a laser survey done by a Mexican environmental organization. What it ...