New research using cutting-edge technology has uncovered surprising insights about the Maya civilization’s population.

After using lasers to map the Maya Lowlands, researchers have updated their estimates of the total Maya population during the ...

Lidar is fast becoming one of the most influential tools in archaeology, revealing things in a few hours that might have taken months of machete wielding and manual measurements otherwise. Takeshi ...

Mexico’s National Institute said about 6,479 structures have been detected in LiDAR images covering an area of about 122 square kilometres. The technique maps landscapes using thousands of ...

Lidar imagery of features discovered in the Casarabe city using lidar. Image Credits: Prümers et al. The Casarabe culture, as it has been named following its discovery, remain mostly a mystery.

A new lidar-powered analysis of land in the Amazon basin has provided evidence of a previously unknown urban center of "mind blowing" complexity. To be clear, that doesn't mean ancient aliens or ...