The study utilised LiDAR data, a remote sensing technique that can reveal hidden archaeological features, to analyse parts of Campeche state, a relatively unexplored area of the Maya world.

A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico. Archaeologists found ...

The research, published in the journal Antiquity, involved an analysis of LiDAR data covering parts of Campeche state—an understudied corner of the Maya world. LiDAR, or light detection and ...

F or centuries, the dense jungles of Mexico’s Campeche state hid one of the Maya civilization’s best-kept secrets. Beneath ...

Output of Cantarell, Mexico's largest oil field off the shore of Mexico's southern Campeche state, has dropped significantly, averaging just over 1.8 million barrels a day in May, a drop of 7% ...

Instead of hacking through dense vegetation, researchers used existing, very precise laser scans of the land surface to identify a "dense, diverse array of totally unstudied Maya settlements".

A huge ancient Mayan city that may have housed between 30,000 and 50,000 people at its peak between 750 and 850 AD was discovered in Mexico by accident thanks to Lidar technology. A team of ...