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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A huge, ancient Maya city has been found in southern Mexico
Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.
Major Lost Maya City Discovered While Searching Google
Thomas used LiDAR data related to carbon monitoring to discover a lost Maya city.Auld-Thomas’ work helped locate an estimated ...
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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.
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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Have We Discovered All the Mayan Cities? Newly-Found Metropolis with Pyramids Shows We’re Not Even Close
A major Mayan urban center has been found in a recent lidar survey on the Yucatan Peninsula that includes pyramids and ball ...
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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 ...
Scientists detect traces of an ancient Mayan city in southern Mexico using laser-sensor technology
The technique, using thousands of laser pulses sent from a plane, can detect variations in topography that are not evident to the naked eye.
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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Student discovers lost Mayan city in the jungle by accident
Luke Auld-Thomas, Ph.D. candidate in Archeology at Tulane University, made the discovery while in a small team in the ...
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Lost Maya Metropolis Hidden By Thick Jungle Uncovered by Laser Mapping and a Lucky Google Search
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 ...
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Ancient Mayan city discovered via page 16 of Google search results
“I was on something like page 16 of Google search and found a laser survey done by a Mexican organization for environmental monitoring,” Luke Auld-Thomas, a Ph.D. student at Tulane University in ...