Google discovery: PhD student found a lost Maya city while scrolling through page 16 of Google |
Most major archaeological discoveries begin with years of fieldwork, expensive expeditions and painstaking excavation. The discovery of Valeriana, a vast ancient Maya city hidden beneath the forests of southern Mexico, began very differently. Luke Auld-Thomas, a PhD student at Tulane University, was searching online when he came across an obscure LiDAR dataset buried deep in…