Mexico City is a sprawling metropolis that can take many days to absorb, but the transportation system is organized to facilitate inter-city travel. Mexico City consists of more than 350 different ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

Lidar surveys are very useful in Mesoamerican archaeology, where swaths of jungle can quickly swallow up entire cities. Three years ago, a separate team mapped 30,000 square miles (78,000 square ...

In 1539, Friar Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan priest, reported to Spanish colonial officials in Mexico City that he’d seen ... But when a large and expensive Spanish expedition returned to the ...

A new Mayan city, lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico for centuries ... And one of their survey blocks which was ...

The 177 Mexico pueblos magicos, or magic towns, are smaller towns rather than large cities. Mexico’s Secretary of Tourism has ...

An analysis of data covering an understudied area has revealed thousands of previously unknown Maya structures.

Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...

Archeologists in Mexico have discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana, hidden deep in the southern ...

The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.

I’ve lived in Mexico since 2018, and have traveled to more than half the states in the country (most as a solo female ...

(AP Video: Stephen Smith) NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Archaeologists using laser-sensing technology have detected what may be an ...