a lidar survey of Tikal, in Guatemala, revealed an previously unknown neighborhood complex on the sprawling site. A lidar image of previously unknown Maya structures in Mexico. Image: Auld-Thomas ...

Ruins of cities keep turning up in the forests of central America. How have these structures stayed standing for millennia?

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

At the height of the Mayan empire 1,400 years ago, the city of Tikal in modern-day Guatemala was a bustling metropolis the size of London during the Middle Ages. But when the Spanish conquistadors ...

CAMPECHE, MEXICO—According to a BBC News report ... survey that led to the discovery of a Maya complex at the site of Tikal in Guatemala, go to "New Neighbors." Buildings revealed by lidar ...

like Chichen Itza and Tulum in Mexico or Tikal in Guatemala. But so much more than being the architects of these ancient ...

Laser surveys have revealed a massive centuries-old Maya city in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. The city contains up to 6,674 structures, including pyramids like the ones at Chichén Itzá and Tikal, ...

Mexico, revealing 6,674 undiscovered Maya structures, including pyramids like those at the famous sites of Chichén Itzá or Tikal. "For the longest time, our sample of the Maya civilization was a ...