The excavation, led by Dr. Pearce Paul Creasman, executive director of the American Research Center, took place beneath the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a lost Portuguese settlement from the 18th century in the Amazon Rainforest using LiDAR ...

WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the middle of the jungle of Campeche.

The lost city has “all the hallmarks of a Classic Maya political capital”, Mr Auld-Thomas noted. “We did not just find rural areas and smaller settlements. We also found a large city with ...

Archaeologists have discovered the lost Mayan city 'Valeriana' deep in Mexico's Campeche jungle, revealing a dense urban settlement with 6,764 structures. Using Lidar technology, researchers have ...

But part of that region is blank no longer. Archaeologists have found thousands of never-before-seen Maya structures as well as a large city that they named Valeriana after a nearby lagoon ...

The ancient city of Tripolis ... but it wasn’t until six years later that the lost head was discovered. One year into the Future Heritage Project, archaeologists discovered the white carving ...

there’s a lot more to be discovered,” Mr Auld-Thomas said. His study was recently published in the journal Antiquity. The lost city has “all the hallmarks of a Classic Maya political capital”, Mr Auld ...