Tulane researchers uncovered over 6,500 Maya structures in Mexico using lidar, revealing a complex settlement landscape and challenging previous assumptions about the Maya civilization’s urban and rural distribution.

the archaeological community agrees that climate change played a role in the collapse of Maya civilization in the Classic Lowlands. However, it was not a total disappearance. The Maya culture survived, and today many people continue to speak Mayan ...

Using advanced scanning technology, researchers have located a major Maya site in the thick jungle of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. This newly identified settlement is believed to have been a political center.

Over 6,500 previously unknown Maya structures, including an entire city with towering pyramids, were revealed in southeast Mexico.

East of the town of Dos Lagunas, past the major highway cutting through Mexico’s south, the forest rises up in a dense wall of grasping roots, spindly branches and veils of brown and green. Beyond it lies the ruins of an old Maya city,