New England's woody hills and dales hide a secret—they weren't always forested. Instead, many were once covered with colonial roads and farmsteads. This "lost" New England of the colonial era has ...

The Maya civilization flourished more than 1,000 years ago, but modern technology is only now revealing the secrets of this ancient Mexican and Central American culture—and it’s happening at an ...

No audio available for this content. PrecisionHawk’s Jaymie Young and Matt Tompkins fly a UAV with the hosts of History Channel’s “Lost Gold of World II” in the Philippines in late 2018. (Photo: ...

“This is it—the paradigm shift,” archaeologist Chris Fisher told Ars, following a comment by researcher Arlen Chase. “Just like the advent of radiocarbon dating, LiDAR will have the same impact.” ...

Archaeologists are finding more ancient cities and lost human settlements than ever before. And it’s all thanks to new imaging technologies commonly used in surveillance. With highly-accurate ...

Technological advances are allowing archaeologists to take a wider, yet closer, look at ancient sites, opening up long-hidden evidence about the societies of the people who lived there. Tomos Evans is ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have used laser technology to map a 100-km (62-mile) Maya stone road that could have been built 1,300 years ago to help with the invasion of an isolated city in modern-day Mexico. The ...

"a picture of what lies beneath them on (and under) the ground". How does the "under"-part work? I understand that in this context light means in or near the visible range of em waves. Yet visible ...

Excavations may be paused, but discoveries are still being made thanks to aerial photography and high-tech scans that are available online. Wedding photographer Chris Sedden spotted what could ...