All this, from the examination of lake sediment!

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, researchers have uncovered an ancient structure that rivals the size of some modern cities. Utilizing advanced technologies like LIDAR, scientists have revealed vast, ...

Get ready “to rethink the entire human past of the Amazon,” says archaeologist Stéphen Rostain. After two decades of field work and research, the French archaeologist has unveiled evidence of a ...

LOS ANGELES - A vast and highly complex system of ancient cities dating back nearly 3,000 years has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest, according to a study published in the journal Science on ...

Archeologists analyzing stretches of the Amazon using LIDAR have discovered a long-lost Portuguese colony in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Experts found geometric shapes—possibly denoting places of ...

Researchers have discovered two dozen ancient constructions hidden beneath the canopy in the Amazon rainforest basin. The constructions are earthworks built in the pre-Columbian era—meaning prior to ...

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of ancient cities in the Amazon rainforest believed to be over two thousand years old. Located in a region called the Upano Valley in eastern Ecuador, these ...

Archaeologists have discovered a lost colonial city in the Amazon rainforest that dates back to the 18th century. The Portuguese settlement previously appeared on some maps but its exact location was ...

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world's largest rainforest, according to a new international study published in the Proceedings of the ...

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 ...

When the Spanish first ventured into the Amazon Basin in the 1540s, they recorded Indigenous accounts of a lost city of fantastic wealth that they called El Dorado (“the golden”). Over the centuries, ...