And how did Tulane University graduate student Luke Auld-Thomas find it? The answer lies in lasers. Until recently, ...

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

Thomas used LiDAR data related to carbon monitoring to discover a lost Maya city.Auld-Thomas’ work helped locate an estimated ...

Tulane researchers uncovered over 6,500 Maya structures in Mexico using lidar, revealing a complex settlement landscape and ...

Using cutting-edge laser mapping tech, archeologists have uncovered a lost Mayan city in the jungles of southern Mexico. As ...

A major Mayan urban center has been found in a recent lidar survey on the Yucatan Peninsula that includes pyramids and ball ...

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

During a random Google search, a researcher stumbled on a laser survey done by a Mexican environmental organization. What it ...

Archaeologists have analyzed lidar data from a completely unstudied corner of the Maya world in Campeche, Mexico, revealing 6 ...

Luke Auld-Thomas, Ph.D. candidate in Archeology at Tulane University, made the discovery while in a small team in the ...

Auld-Thomas saw an opportunity and decided to take a shot. He and his colleagues from Tulane University and Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History re-processed the 2013 lidar data ...

Who ever goes beyond page one of Google search results? Well, Luke Auld-Thomas did, and it led to the discovery of a lost ...