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, when he drove past ...

This is how Luke Auld-Thomas, the main person responsible for the discovery, describes it: "The larger of the two monumental enclosures at Valeriana has all the characteristics of a classic Maya ...

In 2024, a Mayan megacity was discovered in Campeche, Mexico. Swallowed by the rainforest, this lost urban center contained pyramids, plazas, amphitheaters, and highways. But this discovery wasn't ...

In 2024, a Mayan megacity was discovered in Campeche, Mexico. Swallowed by the rainforest, this lost urban center contained pyramids, plazas, amphitheaters, and highways. But this discovery wasn't ...

Luke Auld-Thomas, courtesy Tulane University. As soon as he opened the 3D images, he knew. Rising from even the "quick and dirty" versions of the files was "a big, conspicuous city." ...

Researchers have found a treasure trove of structures from an ancient civilization — by using a modern technology. Luke Auld-Thomas, an instructor in the Anthropology Department at Northern Arizona ...

Luke Auld-Thomas/Tulane University When Auld-Thomas and Marcello started looking at the lidar data, they were surprised to see an entire city , packed with buildings. It may have been home to ...

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 analyzed a lidar survey of an understudied corner of the Maya civilization in Campeche, Mexico. “Our analysis not only revealed a picture of a region that was dense with ...

Archaeology graduate student Luke Auld-Thomas at Tulane University in Louisiana published a paper about how he found one of the biggest Mayan cities in Latin America.

Luke Auld-Thomas, Ph.D. candidate in Archeology at Tulane University, made the discovery while on Google Maps. ... After processing the data, Auld-Thomas found that the survey had missed a huge city ...

It took Luke Auld-Thomas about 16 pages of trawling through Google before he stumbled across an obscure piece of mapping that would lead to the discovery of a huge Maya city. It was carbon mapping ...