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 ...

They located the ruins by analyzing 3D mapping data collected from the air using lasers. ... Several millennia ago, the Olmec and Maya civilizations flourished in what are now Mexico and Guatemala.

In an accompanying article in Science, Mary Pohl, an anthropologist at Florida State University who has excavated Olmec ruins, was quoted as saying, "This is an exciting discovery of great ...

A 2,500-year-old city influenced by the Olmecs, often referred to as the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica, has been discovered hundreds of miles away from the Olmecs' Gulf coast territory ...

The city of San Lorenzo was the Olmec cultural center before La Venta, and this transition — and its resultant power vacuum — may have triggered larger shifts throughout the region.

Accounts of their ancestors' jungle-draped ruins have been objects of popular fascination since the 1840s, when U.S. explorer John Lloyd Stephens, "the father of American archaeology," wrote best ...

The 15 best Oaxaca ruins are featured in this article — from Monte Alban to Mitla Ruins. ... The Olmec, Zapotec, and Mixtec ...

The 15 best Oaxaca ruins are featured in this article — from Monte Alban to Mitla Ruins. Travel Mexico Solo. ... It was ...

An aerial survey in southern Mexico discovered a host of ceremonial sites that could date as far back as 1100 BC.