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

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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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The Independent

Archaeologists find ‘mind-blowing’ lost city hidden in Amazon

Findings ‘can significantly contribute’ to perspectives on conservation of the Amazon, say scientists

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Daily Express

Archaeology breakthrough: Amazon laser scan unveils hidden network of ancient settlements

A NETWORK of lost ancient cities in the Amazon that have lain hidden under the thick forest canopy for centuries has been revealed by laser scanning.

2 years ago·United Kingdom

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Daily Mirror

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

Much of the Amazon jungle had been blocked by trees, plants and greenery for centuries until now after technology has revealed a fascinating lost city

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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The Times

Lost city with pyramids found in impenetrable Amazon jungle

In 1925 Colonel Percy Fawcett stocked up on machetes, rifles, a ukulele and British Imperial pluck, and set off into the uncharted Amazon to find the lost City of Z. Somewhere, hidden in what he called “the last great blank space in the world”, this great explorer was convinced there lay a fallen ci

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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