Archaeologists are using artificial intelligence to investigate ancient artifacts and uncover the story of human culture. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are usually tied to aspirations for ...

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 ...

he analyzed a survey of land in Mexico done by lidar, or light detection and ranging. They found evidence of more than 6,500 structures from the Maya civilization. Auld-Thomas joined The Show to talk ...

The new LiDAR scans also highlight the connections between Maya settlements and hint at the complexity of Maya cities regardless of their size, said Carlos Morales-Aguilar, a landscape ...

Lidar technology has allowed scientists to survey large swaths of land from the comfort of a computer lab, uncovering anomalies in the landscape that often prove to be pyramids, family houses, and ...

But LiDAR allows researchers to study much larger swathes of land quickly in the comfort of a home or lab. Auld-Thomas used publicly available LiDAR data taken for a forest monitoring project in 2013 ...

An ancient structure in Calakmul, which is relatively close to the newly discovered Maya ... the land. Ancient buildings clustered on a hilltop are revealed by a narrow transect of lidar survey ...

Using LiDAR technology ... While archaeologists have long understood that the Maya occupied and engineered vast tracts of land in the region, certain areas like east-central Campeche had largely ...

LiDAR is particularly useful for surveying dense tropical forests, such as the Maya Lowlands, where thick vegetation can obscure ancient ruins, helping researchers to "see through" the canopy. The ...

It has allowed scientists to scan large swaths of land from the comfort of a ... ongoing debates about the true extent of Maya settlements. "Because lidar allows us to map large areas very quickly ...

Archaeologists using an old map of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have uncovered a lost Maya city, hidden until now, with thousands of buildings densely packed into a small area. The archaeological ...

Lidar technology has allowed scientists to survey large swaths of land from the comfort of a computer lab, uncovering anomalies in the landscape that often prove to be pyramids, family houses and ...