Lidar has fully revealed a 600-year-old Zapotec city in southern Mexico. Lasers shot from an aircraft have revealed the ...

Long thought to be a fortress, Guiengola has been revealed as a sprawling city thanks to airborne lidar analysis ...

Understanding the Zapotecs’ level of political and social organization provides insight into their agency in negotiations ...

LiDAR was the key technology that enabled Ramón Celis to uncover the full scale of Guiengola. Unlike traditional ...

Using LiDAR technology, researchers reveal over 1,170 structures including temples and ball courts, offering a snapshot of pre-Columbian Zapotec life.

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"It's like a city frozen in time," said archaeologist Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of Canada's McGill University.

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a 600-year-old lost city "frozen in time" in southern Mexico. Using groundbreaking technology, an ...