Last year, Luke Auld-Thomas, a researcher specializing in Mayan settlements at Tulane University in New Orleans, was poring over a Mexican environmental monitoring survey, when he spotted something ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week’s news that archaeologists have discovered the long-lost city of Valeriana highlights one major part of Maya society: astronomical observatories. More than 6,000 structures unveiled ...

A new Mayan city, lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico for centuries, has been discovered from the computer of a PhD student hundreds of miles away. This is the story of how he did it. The ...

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Archaeologists have discovered the lost Mayan city 'Valeriana' deep in Mexico's Campeche jungle, revealing a dense urban settlement with 6,764 structures. Using Lidar technology, researchers have ...

Deep within the dense jungles of southern Campeche in Mexico, archaeologists have unearthed a marvel: an expansive, lost Mayan city, now known as Valeriana. Centuries after its flourishing era, the ...

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Archeologists in Mexico have discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana, hidden deep in the southern jungle of Campeche -- a sprawling, urban settlement, replete with architectural ...

Archaeologists draw on laser mapping to find city they have named Valeriana, thought to have been founded pre-AD150 After swapping machetes and binoculars for computer screens and laser mapping, a ...