Using advanced scanning technology, researchers have located a major Maya site in the thick jungle of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

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Archaeologists have long known about ancient urban sites in the Maya Lowlands of southern Mexico. But this discovery was somewhat unexpected. Luke Auld-Thomas, an archaeologist at Tulane University, ...

The topographic map indicates that Valeriana was structured with residential areas featuring ... According to Thomas Garrison ...

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A major Mayan city, named Valeriana, has been uncovered beneath the dense jungles of Mexico, thanks to Lidar technology. The ...

The technique, using thousands of laser pulses sent from a plane, can detect variations in topography that are not evident to the naked eye.

Auld-Thomas and his colleagues, who published their findings Monday in the journal Antiquity, call the city Valeriana, after ...