In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America. Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended from ...

It's about a week since Treasure Isle released new maps, so we knew it was only a matter of time before next batch of maps would be ready to dig. Treasure Isle has just released the second set of ...

Seems like everyone's digging Treasure Isle, but overachievers have already been asking -- 'where are some new maps already?' Well, it's like the treasure hunting game gods read your minds and ...

The researcher took advantage of maps available freely online. Takeshi Inomata identified this ancient Maya site, dubbed La Carmelita, using LiDAR maps, seen here in both low and high resolution.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes ...

A Canadian teenager has discovered the remains of a lost Mayan city — without ever stepping foot in Mexico. Combining his love for the night sky and a childhood fascination with the Mayan “doomsday” ...

Next time you think there's nothing left to explore—that GPS and satellites have already discovered everything on Earth—just think about the 15-year-old kid from Canada who discovered an ancient Mayan ...

A 15-year-old Canadian teenager has seemingly discovered a long-lost Mayan city after noticing previously-undiscovered correlations between maps of star constellations and the locations of the largest ...

On 10 May 2016, British outlet The Telegraph reported that a Canadian teenager found a lost Mayan city using satellite mapping: A Canadian schoolboy appears to have discovered a lost Mayan city hidden ...