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'Fascinating' lost city with pyramids discovered in impenetrable Amazon jungle

Summary by Ground News
Scientists used light-based remote sensing technology (lidar) to digitally deforest the canopy and identify the ancient ruins of a vast urban settlement around Llanos de Mojos in the Bolivian Amazon. The new images reveal, in detail, a stronghold of the socially complex Casarabe Culture with urban centers boasting monumental platform and pyramid architecture. Raised causeways connected a constellation of suburban-like settlements, which stretched for miles across a landscape that was shaped by a massive water control and distribution system with reservoirs and canals.

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Smithsonian Mag broke the news in United States on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
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