The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.
Modern LIDAR observations have finally revealed its long-lost location, hidden amongst the jungle’s dense foliage.
With the planet’s forests facing numerous threats, advanced monitoring techniques are essential to preserve these crucial ...
A PhD student discovers a public dataset on 'page 16 of a Google search' that helps uncover a major urban center once home to 50,000 people in 800 AD.
The first use of drone-based lidar in Central Asia revealed details of two newly discovered trade cities in the mountains of ...
Ruins of cities keep turning up in the forests of central America. How have these structures stayed standing for millennia?
Two cities that flourished as part of the Silk Road have been mapped though drone-borne LiDAR, revealing them as two of the ...
Drone lidar technology discovered the lost Silk Road cities of Uzbekistan as ancient trade hubs high in the mountains.
One zone north of the Saddle showing is in an underexplored area. In addition, a LiDAR DEM (Digital Elevation Model) ...
The first-ever use of cutting-edge drone-based lidar in Central Asia allowed archaeologists to capture stunning details of ...
Researchers have successfully mapped a previously unknown settlement, as well as thousands of structures that remain buried ...