A forgotten Mayan city resurfaces. Discovered on Google by sheer chance, it changes our perception of tropical civilizations.
An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city with thousands of undiscovered structures, including pyramids, under a Mexican forest.The data came from laser scans ...
Archaeologists have discovered Valeriana, a 2,000-year-old Maya city in Mexico with over 6,600 structures. Learn about the ...
The technique, using thousands of laser pulses sent from a plane, can detect variations in topography that are not evident to the naked eye.