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

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

Archaeologists using an old map of Mexico ... a lidar survey of Tikal, in Guatemala, revealed an previously unknown neighborhood complex on the sprawling site. A lidar image of previously ...

The city contains up to 6,674 structures, including pyramids like the ones at Chichén Itzá and Tikal ... and ranging) maps, which are created by shooting laser pulses at the ground, to reveal the ...

LiDAR, he added, “allows us to map large areas very quickly ... a park that also houses the well-known site of Tikal, according to National Geographic. “LiDAR is revolutionizing archaeology ...

and Tikal. Fieldwork on the ground is yet to be conducted by archaeologists, but based on remote sensing data, which maps entire landscapes under dense forests in minute detail, it seems this lush ...

Some of those structures even comprised the remains of an unknown large city, complete with iconic stone pyramids like those at the famous sites of Chichén Itzá or Tikal ... fieldwork on the site.

"As we get to map more and more of the Yucatán ... plaster-covered buildings can still be seen in Tikal and Copan, an ancient Maya site in Honduras, today. In 2023, Carlos Rodriguez-Navarro ...

and Tikal. Fieldwork on the ground is yet to be conducted by archaeologists, but based on remote sensing data, which maps entire landscapes under dense forests in minute detail, it seems this lush and ...