Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

(AP Video: Stephen Smith) NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Archaeologists using laser-sensing technology have detected what may be an ...

"This density is comparable to that of Mayan sites such as Calakmul, Oxpemul and Becán," said Adriana Velázquez Morlet, director of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History ...

In recent years, LiDAR laser scanning has allowed researchers to analyze large swaths of densely forested land in Mexico in their search for undiscovered ancient settlements and structures ...

For more than 1,000 years, dense forests in the Mexican state of Campeche concealed the region’s ancient human history ... Guatemala and southeastern Mexico, and which the Maya inhabited ...

"Voces de Latinidad" explores the diversity and complexity of the many cultural aspects that shape identity in some of New ...

NBC News' Marissa Parra reports on a newly discovered Maya city in Mexico, which researchers found by accident and estimate once housed tens of thousands of people. Over time, the city was ...

LIDAR surveys aimed at understanding forest coverage could be the secret to unlocking hidden archaeological sites.

Archaeologists have discovered thousands of previously unknown ancient structures, including pyramids, hidden deep in Mexico's jungle. More than 6,600 structures linked to the Maya civilisation ...

The SunZia wind farm and transmission line has been dubbed the largest renewable infrastructure project in American history.

Archaeologists using laser-sensing technology have detected what may be an ancient Mayan city cloaked by jungle in southern Mexico, authorities said Wednesday. The lost city, dubbed Valeriana by ...

Archaeologists have discovered thousands of previously unknown ancient structures, including pyramids, hidden deep in Mexico's jungle. More than 6,600 structures linked to the Maya civilisation have ...