The settlement roughly dates back to the transition from the Neolithic period to the Bronze Age. Researchers used noninvasive ...

Indiana Jones goes geek: Laser-mapping LiDAR revolutionizes archaeology A new technology is helping archeologists map the environments around digs.

OpenAI has announced the winners of a its 'OpenAI to Z Challenge' that hopes to help archaeologists cut through the rain forest not with machetes, but with machine learning. Buried deep within ...

Meet a new breed of explorer using aircraft packed with laser technology to uncover hidden treasures and civilizations.

“Lidar has a huge impact in archaeology under tropical forests because you get more bang for the buck in terms of peeling back the forest and revealing the preserved ancient landscapes underneath,” he ...

An airborne lidar survey recently revealed hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial sites in southern Mexico. The 32,800-square-mile area was surveyed by the Mexican Instituto Nacional de ...

An airborne lidar survey recently revealed hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial sites in southern Mexico. The 32,800-square-mile area was surveyed by the Mexican Instituto Nacional de ...

Archaeology may not be the most likely place to find the latest in technology — AI and robots are of dubious utility in the painstaking fieldwork involved — but lidar has proven transformative ...

Meet a new breed of explorer using aircraft packed with laser technology to uncover hidden treasures and civilizations.