making it one of the largest and most densely populated Mayan cities, second only to Calakmul. Lidar has revolutionized archaeological surveys, allowing researchers to map areas that would take ...

Not too far from the Maya city of Xpujil ... as Auld-Thomas continues: “Because LiDAR allows us to map large areas very quickly, and at really high precision and levels of detail, that made ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

Conventional wisdom has it that Maya kingdoms vanished ... very different ways. Using lidar, a remote sensing method that utilizes airborne lasers, the researchers were able to create a nearly ...

In 2024, a Mayan megacity was ... light detection and ranging (lidar) technology, a remote-sensing method that sends thousands of laser pulses from an aircraft to map objects buried beneath ...