Scientists already had to revise their estimates of the Maya population in 2018, following a round of lidar mapping work in Guatemala. But now it looks like those initial estimates of 11 million ...

Running out of empty space: environmental lidar and the crowded ancient landscape of Campeche, Mexico. Antiquity , 2024; 98 (401): 1340 DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.148 Cite This Page : ...

The world the Maya made has been shrouded by jungle for centuries. Now, a tool called lidar is revealing its staggering scale and sophistication. An aerial view hardly hints at the true size of ...

The once-forgotten city was detected from the skies by LiDAR and contains pyramids, a ball court and spaces marked out by unusual stone columns. CNN values your feedback 1.

Archaeologists have analyzed lidar data from a completely unstudied corner of the Maya world in Campeche, Mexico, revealing 6,674 undiscovered Maya structures, including pyramids like those at the ...

Laser technology known as LiDAR digitally removes the forest canopy to reveal ancient ruins below, showing that Maya cities such as Tikal were much larger than ground-based research had suggested ...

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.

Confident in the method, the team then analyzed 11 lidar data­sets that covered Tikal and seven other Classic Maya urban centers, along with several rural territories.

“Lidar is teaching us that, like many other ancient civilizations, the lowland Maya built a diverse tapestry of towns and ...

LiDAR may help settle this question. Over the past decade, the technology has revolutionized land surveillance in Central America (and beyond) allowing researchers to cover greater distances with ...

Conducted in 2013 as part of the Alianza project to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation, this Lidar survey ...