Visiting the Tulum Ruins in Yucatan? This ultimate guide show how to beat the crowds, the best tours of Tulum Ruins, and how ...

Podcaster Show Player3-D view of the Maya city of El Ceibal, based on LiDAR. Using LiDAR, researchers generated a 3-D map of the surface features of ruins, their rough shape under the Earth and ...

Prepare to be transported back in time as we uncover the breathtaking remnants of the Mayan civilization! 🌄 From ancient pyramids to intricate carvings, each site holds a story waiting to be ...

The ruins in Tulum Mexico are located just outside the city center of Tulum, or about an hour south of Playa del Carmen. Due to the site’s close proximity to the city center, visiting the ruins is the ...

Hidden beneath the rainforest of southern Mexico sit the ruins of a massive ancient Maya settlement. Archaeologists knew of the site since the 1980s but hadn’t tried mapping it — until recently.

Rogelio Jiménez Pons, director of Fonatur, points to a map of a planned train line through the Yucatan Peninsula, during an interview in Mexico City, Monday, March 18, 2019. The Mayan Train would ...

Using a laser-based detection system, archaeologists have discovered over 6,500 pre-Hispanic structures — including a previously unknown Maya city named Valeriana — in Campeche, Mexico. Detail of the ...

A sprawling Maya city with palaces and pyramids was discovered in a dense Mexican jungle by a doctoral student who unknowingly drove past the site years ago on a visit to Mexico. Tulane University ...

The first block of Maya ruins mapped by Auld-Thomas and his colleagues was found just south and east of Río Bec – a famous pre-Columbian Maya site with temple pyramids built in a unique architectural ...

A Mayan city lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico has been revealed. The discovery occurred in the southeastern state of Campeche, and archaeologists have named it Valeriana, after a nearby ...

There are no known images of the lost city, Canuto said, only LiDAR maps, because no one has ever been there with local residents, possibly suspecting that ruins may lie beneath the mounds of earth.

A huge Maya city has been found under a jungle in Mexico - and was accidentally discovered by a student using data from a laser. Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, and amphitheatres in ...