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By Margaret Pizer and Harrison Tasoff

An investment 35 years ago fostered Geographic Information Sciences, now a $28 billion industry involved in fields as diverse as conservation, weather forecasting, city planning and marketing.

Explorers make a remarkable find as lost city of the Maya unearthed in the Mexican jungle.

Archaeologists have found a lost city belonging to the ancient Maya civilisation deep in the Mexican jungle hidden by thick vegetation with large 15 metre high pyramids

Archaeologists discovered a lost Maya city hidden in the jungles of Mexicos Yucatán Peninsula.

Transnational movements are more intricate than diasporic conflicts of ‘home and away’. They operate not only as international connections but also transect and disturb national formations. What are the spaces (both physical and temporal) in and around which transnational exchanges occur? Much discussion of the transnational focuses on international movements of law, politics and economics as they relate to Europe and the Americas. This book extends the focus to dynamics across the humanitie...

Slovenian archaeologist Ivan Šprajc has played a key role in a groundbreaking study on the Maya calendar, in which researchers found that the Mayan timekeeping system is hundreds of years older than previous research indicated and might have been used as far back as in 1100 BC.

The ancient Mayan calendar may originate from 1100 BC, which is many centuries earlier than previously thought, reveals new research by Slovenian archaeologist Ivan Šprajc. The results of this analysis were published by the renowned journal, Science Advances.

ST. LOUIS – A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will create the Taylor Geospatial Institute Regional AI Learning System. Launched in April 2022 and led by Saint Louis University, the Taylor Geospatial Institute brings together eight Midwestern universities and research centers to harness innovation in geospatial science. The three-year grant, “Regional Computing: Taylor Geospatial