This New Discovery in the Amazon is Rewriting History

Follow Michael Button. New discoveries in the Amazon Rainforest are suggesting something extraordinary: a lost advanced civilisation, hidden beneath the canopy...

The Amazon is a fortress of greenery. Trees grow so close together that sunlight barely reaches the forest floor. So, it’s no wonder they believed that no one could live here—not in any significant numbers, anyway.

But what if that assumption was wrong? And not just wrong—very wrong.
What if, hidden beneath this thick canopy, there was once a thriving civilization? One that didn’t just survive here but excelled, creating cities, roads, and a way of life that we’ve only just begun to uncover?