LIDAR Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery by analyzing lidar data from an unexplored region of the Maya world in Campeche, Mexico. This cutting-edge technology
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - LIDAR technology continues to prove its value in revealing what lies beneath dense vegetation. Recently, archaeologists have increasingly turned to LiDAR (Light Detection
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - A valley of lost cities has been discovered in the Ecuadorian Amazon. When you hear of such a discovery you might think of archaeologists with chisels and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) survey conducted in Campeche, Mexico, has revealed significant archaeological findings. The survey covered an area of 140
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Cahokia Mounds is an enigmatic ancient Native American site located east of St. Louis. It comprises over 100 earthen mounds used for burial
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Utilizing advanced laser technology, archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient city on the Pacific Island of Tongatapua. Aerial scanning devices, employed for
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - French archaeologists have announced a significant archaeological finding at Cap d'Erquy, located in the Côtes d'Armor north of Brittany. The remnants of a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - LIDAR has once again demonstrated its advantage when locating hidden ancient sites in the jungle. Light Detection and Ranging technology is indispensable to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While scanning the Yucatan jungle in Mexico with lasers, scientists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered an 18-kilometer (11-mile)
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers use drones equipped with light detection and ranging, or LIDAR to study ancient Native American villages called pueblos in the Lion Mountain
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A Roman road network that spanned Devon and Cornwall and connected significant settlements with military forts across the two counties as well as
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) have discovered traces of previously unknown graves and settlement activity at several locations along Trondheim Fjord. Scientists hope
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Archaeoastronomy
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most ancient civilizations studied celestial objects and were skilled astronomers. Countless archaeological examples have provided evidence ancient people were often more advanced than
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old, large Roman temple has been discovered under and next to the Church of St. Daniel in the village of Danilo near
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The well-preserved remains of an ancient winepress have been found near the Roman fort Apsaros (today's Gonio near Batumi, Georgia). The Polish-Georgian team
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The use of LIDAR, (light detection and ranging) has helped to uncover more secrets of Calakmul, an enormous ancient Maya city. As a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There is much evidence the Incas were skilled in regard to water engineering. One of their greatest accomplishments is the Incamisana water temple
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have been excavating the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in modern-day Guatemala, since the 1950s—and thanks to those many decades
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Our knowledge of Cambodia's Greater Angkor region has increased thanks to new LIDAR images. It has long been known this region was once
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The use of radar has once again resulted in a successful archaeological discovery. This time scientists conducted a laser scan of a region
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have once again used LIDAR technology with success. Using light detection and ranging technology scientists have located the world's oldest and largest
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Because of its ability to capture extraordinarily accurate, high-resolution, 3D data LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) has become an appreciated tool among archaeologists.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than 8,000 tree-shrouded structures of varying sizes along the sacbe (white road) - with enough total volume to fill approximately 2,900 Olympic
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Using drone technology, a team of UF researchers has uncovered an ancient and rare pre-Columbian Florida village. A drone equipped with Light Detection
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Finding an ancient unknown settlement is a great discovery, but this time archaeologists have achieved more than just that. Using LIDAR (light detection and
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Researchers at Tulane University have documented the discovery of dozens of ancient cities in northern Guatemala through the use of jungle-penetrating Lidar (light detection and ranging) technology.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Using satellites researchers have discovered several hidden North American mounds that could offer valuable information about pre-contact Native Americans and early life of our ancestors, but we
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) technology researchers have made an astonishing discovery that can re-write history of Mexico. Hidden in the heartland of Mexico, scientists have
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A team of international archaeologists has just begun exploring a mysterious ancient staircase in the Phnom Kulen in Siem Reap province, near the Angkor World Heritage Site in
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Hidden deep in jungle of in Honduras, Central America, there is a mysterious place known as the White City – some call it “Lost City Of The
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