"It's like a city frozen in time," said archaeologist Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of Canada's McGill University.

A collective work titled "Archaeology of the Amazon" offers a broad overview of traces left by thirteen millennia of human ...

It's for this particular reason that LiDAR has become an indispensable tool for the archaeology community as it gives them an idea of what might be buried in a place of interest before excavating ...

If you’ve got good eyesight, you can probably see a person’s general figure from around 300 meters (1000 feet). If you’re ...

LiDAR was the key technology that enabled Ramón Celis to uncover the full scale of Guiengola. Unlike traditional ...

Understanding the Zapotecs’ level of political and social organization provides insight into their agency in negotiations ...

According to a Newsweek report, Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of McGill University and his colleagues spotted the remains of ...

They used lidar to survey 900 square miles of the densely forested Angkor region, revealing centuries-old cities that once belonged to the vast Khmer Empire. The kingdom’s provincial centers ...

A recently published study has unveiled the true nature of Guiengola, a sprawling Zapotec enclave in the southern part of ...

Using LiDAR technology, researchers reveal over 1,170 structures including temples and ball courts, offering a snapshot of pre-Columbian Zapotec life.

Archaeology's digital revolution is revealing traces of ancient civilizations previously invisible and solving mysteries. Water supplies in the Angkor Civilization visualized by a LiDAR survey ...

A McGill University researcher has discovered that Guiengola, a 15th century Zapotec site in southern Oaxaca, Mexico, which had been thought to be simply a fortress where soldiers were garrisoned, was ...