"As the pair researched the structures they found on that lidar scan, they began to believe they had found a large Mayan city previously lost to history. They say at its height, likely around 750 ...

During a 2023 LiDAR scan, a technology that uses lasers to scan the surface of the Earth, researchers noticed stone structures hidden in the environment, according to a June 24 news release from ...

A new Mayan city, lost in the dense ... and measuring distances with light, known as lidar, has revolutionized the field, allowing us to scan entire regions in search of archaeological sites ...

Funders are often reluctant to invest in lidar surveys in areas where there is no visible evidence of Mayan settlement, despite the fact that this civilization reached its peak between 250 and 900 AD.

It has allowed scientists to scan large swaths of land ... it's impossible to determine exactly how many Mayan cities still have to be studied. However, lidar technology is helping researchers ...

An extensive ancient Mayan civilization that existed more than ... According to the archaeologists, the LiDAR scan showed an exceptional distribution and density of Maya sites centered in the ...

The discovery of what appears to have been a bustling urban landscape challenges the existing knowledge about the prevalence and density of ancient Mayan settlements. A Lidar image shows what ...

A graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico unexpectedly stumbled across a huge ancient Mayan city buried ... mapping technology known as LiDAR — light detection and ...

Researchers have discovered a Mayan site hidden deep in the jungle ... the settlements with an aerial mapping technology called Lidar. Marcello Canuto is a professor of anthropology at Tulane ...

There, among the data in a 2013 airborne LiDAR study—a process of mapping the earth by firing lasers from an airplane—was a vast and previously unknown Mayan city. The city has been buried ...

A huge ancient Mayan city that may have housed between 30,000 and 50,000 people at its peak between 750 and 850 AD was discovered in Mexico by accident thanks to Lidar technology. A team of ...