An archaeology student discovered a major Mayan civilization hidden under the Mexican jungle using a LiDAR dataset he stumbled upon during a Google search. “I was on something like page 16 of [a ...

This discovery positions Valeriana as one of the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America, second only to Calakmul. Historically, tropical regions have been dismissed as inhospitable for thriving ...

The Maya civilization peaked between 250 and 900 AD and was a complex society that flourished in the tropical lowlands of what is now Central America and Mexico. The civilizations were highly ...

The settlement appears to contain more than 6,700 structures including a ballcourt, a dam, and houses The settlement appears to contain houses, a dam and a ballcourt A Mayan city that had been ...