Cutting-edge LiDAR technology has revealed an astonishing secret concealed beneath the dense jungle canopy of Ecuador's Andean Chocó: hundreds of pre-Hispanic structures that dramatically expand our ...

For the first time, archaeologists have used drone-based lidar technology in Central Asia to uncover stunning details of two newly documented trade cities located high in the mountains of Uzbekistan.

In a remarkable breakthrough, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old fortress in the forests of Neamț ...

The lidar-equipped helicopter used by GEO1 to map Colombia's Ciudad Perdida Courtesy of NV5 Tashbulak and Tugunbulak may be largely forgotten today, but the pair of Uzbekistani cities thrived during ...

The Sein Island submerged stone structures include a football-field-long granite wall off Brittany that dates back more than ...

Medina al-Zahira is tied to one of the most powerful and controversial figures of late Umayyad al-Andalus: Almanzor (al-Manṣūr). While the caliphs reigned, Almanzor is remembered as the de facto ...

OAXACA, MEXICO—According to a Newsweek report, Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of McGill University and his colleagues spotted the remains of more than 1,000 structures built by the Zapotec in southern ...

An aerial survey has revealed hundreds of medieval archaeological features thousands of feet above sea level along the famous Silk Road—a network of ancient trade routes that connected civilizations ...

In a prominent paper published in 1977,Xia drew on nearly 100 radiocarbon-dated samples to systematically establish absolute chronologies for Neolithic sites in China's Central Plains, the ...