Tulane University archeology doctoral student Luke Auld-Thomas was in Mexico about a decade ago traveling between the town of Xpujil, an archaeology site, and coastal cities, ...

Luke Auld-Thomas's research on Mayan settlements had him poking around on the internet, which led him to a LIDAR survey, a laser based technology used in this case for terrain mapping.

Luke Auld-Thomas, who studies at Tulane university in the United States, ... Mr Auld-Thomas processed the data and found an ...

Luke Auld-Thomas, a Ph.D. candidate at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, "stumbled across the discovery" while browsing on the internet, according to Marcello Canuto, an anthropology ...

Archaeologists have revealed an ancient lost Mayan city using advanced laser mapping technology, unearthing monumental structures such as pyramids and plazas. Named Valeriana, the city is believed ...

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 ...

Luke Auld-Thomas: It was both deliberate and accidental. The mapping project was undertaken in 2013 by a group of ecologists who were mapping the distribution of above-ground frest biomass in ...

CANUTO: So Luke, my Ph.D. student, Luke Auld-Thomas, had been reading about lidar data that had been recently published. And lidar, it's basically a pulse of light that's sent from a sensor, ...

Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping technology, according to a new study.

Mr Auld-Thomas analysed data from one such lidar project from 2013, focused on measuring and monitoring carbon in Mexico’s forests, to see what lay underneath 50 square miles of Campeche.

Maya cities like this one could help solve modern urban development problems. (Image credit: Luke Auld-Thomas, Antiquity Publications Ltd; CC BY 4.0) "The government never knew about it; the ...