Deep in the Amazon rainforest, researchers have uncovered an ancient structure that rivals the size of some modern cities.

The Amazon rainforest, long perceived as a pristine wilderness, is now being unveiled as a cradle of ancient garden towns.

Ocara-Açu, a vast precolonial Amazon settlement, underlies the modern-day city of Santarém in Brazil, once serving as the core of a regional network that may have housed up to 60,000 people before the ...

Recent stunning discoveries are exploding the myth of the Amazon as a primeval wilderness, revealing traces of ancient civilizations that flourished there for centuries. Dense settlements indicate ...

Two archaeologists from the American heartland are embarking on an Amazonian adventure to uncover the remains of a lost civilization — proving that world-class research can emerge from the Ozarks just ...

A study on the civilization titled "Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon" has been published in the journal Nature. Researchers have used airborne light detection and ...

LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) was able to discover a hidden ancient Amazon civilization. This just shows that advanced laser tech can be used to analyze unknown places on Earth. This LIDAR, ...

Archaeological discoveries reveal traces of ancient civilizations in the Amazon. Recent discoveries in archaeology are exploding the myth of the Amazon as a primeval wilderness, revealing traces of ...