Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

A map shows the layout of X’baatún’s core ... s outer areas but expect to find more residential structures. Ancient Maya communities lived at X’baatún beginning as early as 300 B.C ...

A graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico unexpectedly stumbled across a huge ancient Mayan city buried ... ranging equipment. LiDAR maps are used by a wide range ...

LiDAR, he added, “allows us to map large areas very quickly ... “LiDAR is teaching us that, like many other ancient civilizations, the lowland Maya built a diverse tapestry of towns and ...

In 2009, archaeologists Diane and Arlen Chase of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, pioneered the use of lidar to map a Mayan city, revolutionizing the way ancient civilizations are detected and ...

Mesoamerica extends roughly from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua (regional map). Ancient rubber makers harvested latex from rubber trees and mixed it with juice from morning glory vines ...

Across southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, ancient Maya cities lie scattered like ... In recent years, lidar scans—laser technology that can map what’s hidden beneath the trees ...

The ancient Maya civilisation first emerged sometime before ... by roads that the Maya likely traversed on foot. "As we get to map more and more of the Yucatán, we basically know that if you ...

However, like many ancient civilizations, the Maya built new structures on top of ... but also the smallest sculptures.' A 3D map of the Copan underground tunnels can be viewed below.

built just before the Maya civilization rose to prominence. Harrison-Buck and her fellow archeologists used drones and Google Earth data to map 108 kilometers of ancient channels that zigzag ...