Hope • August 20, 2026

Archaeologists Triple the Scale of an Ancient Amazonian Civilization We Know Almost Nothing About

Originally published on Good News Network

Archaeologists Triple the Scale of an Ancient Amazonian Civilization We Know Almost Nothing About
Hundreds of geometric earthworks were recently found in the southwestern Amazon, evidence that a monument-building, precolonial civilization was so much larger than previously thought. The scale of this hidden world of massive earthen construction projects only began to truly be understood this decade, but a recent aerial survey using laser radar has dramatically increased the
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