How a PhD Student Discovered a Lost Mayan City From Hundreds of Miles Away
This is the story of how he did it. And how did Tulane University graduate student Luke Auld-Thomas find it? The answer lies ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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.
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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...