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.

Over the last decade, many archaeology projects in the region have begun using LiDAR, revealing more and more about this lost civilization. But the Pacunam project was unprecedented.

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 ...

Archaeologists have used laser technology to map a 100-km (62-mile) Maya stone road that could have been built 1,300 years ago to help with the invasion of an isolated city in modern-day Mexico ...

The application of light detection and ranging (LiDAR), a laserbased remote-sensing technology that is capable of penetrating overlying vegetation and forest canopies, is generating a fundamental ...

Technological advances are allowing archaeologists to take a wider, yet closer, look at ancient sites, opening up long-hidden evidence about the societies of the people who lived there. Tomos Evans is ...

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