The latest such discovery is an enormous Mayan structure, more than a kilometer long, 3,000 years old and seemingly used for astronomical observations. Takeshi Inomata […] TechCrunch Desktop ...

These devices use LiDAR lasers to scan the environment around them, getting a more accurate picture of how the area is shaped and what objects they're near.

It turned out to be a rare 1,100-year-old structure. Stine Grøvdal Melsæther spotted the ruins on a LiDAR scan of Øksnes taken by archaeologists ahead of a construction project, the Nordland ...

But thanks to lidar, a technology that uses lasers to map terrain, archaeologists have been able to find forgotten structures hidden in the landscape. Most recently, they say they've located a ...

Although parts of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral now lie in ruins, people can still experience what most of its nooks and crannies looked like in remarkable detail – thanks to an American art ...

Lidar is fast becoming one of the most influential tools in archaeology, revealing things in a few hours that might have taken months of machete wielding and manual measurements otherwise.

Lidar is fast becoming one of the most influential tools in archaeology, revealing things in a few hours that might have taken months of machete wielding and manual measurements otherwise. Takeshi ...