Using airborne LIDAR and magnetometry for the first time in the Cyclades, archaeologists have discovered prehistoric settlements, medieval structures, and possible Palaeolithic traces on 87 ...
A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...
A previously unknown medieval castle has emerged from the Swiss landscape after a researcher studying high-resolution terrain maps identified telltale features of an early fortification near ...
These days, if you want to search for lost civilisations, there’s no need to machete your way through jungles like Indiana Jones, you simply need to turn on your laptop. Remote sensing technology has ...
Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how ...
"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 ...
GPS and airborne light detection and ranging (lidar) have revolutionized archaeology. In just a little more than a decade, dozens of previously hidden cities and settlements have been discovered under ...
If you think archaeologists spend all the time with trowel in hand in a muddy ditch then it’s time to think again. More and more are using sophisticated aircraft-mounted lasers, and it is opening up a ...
Lidar – light detection and ranging, a light-based method of remote sensing – has become a valuable tool in archaeology, exposing details about ancient sites that had previously gone unseen in ...