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 ...

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

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 : ...

LiDAR sensors are used in professional and scientific settings all the time, but why have them on a smartphone? Turns out, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

While conducting an aerial survey of northern Guatemala, researchers detected a sprawling Maya site. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Discovering Maya cities used to involve bushwhacking through the jungle, schlepping gear and sidestepping snakes. And over the course of his career, Professor Marcello Canuto has done plenty of that.

This discovery underscores the fact that much of the Maya civilization remains unknown to archaeologists. The team surveyed 50 square miles of land in Campeche using technology called lidar, which ...

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 ...