Was there an unknown ancient civilization in the Amazon?
From above, the Amazon can look like a single, unbroken organism: canopy, rivers, and not much else. That view helped cement an old assumption that large, settled societies could not…
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Mystery in the Amazon: The Unraveling of Percy Fawcett’s Lost Expedition
The Enigma That Still Haunts the World: A Legendary Explorer’s Disappearance in 1925 In 1925, British explorer Percy Fawcett, along with his son Jack and friend Raleigh Rimell, embarked on…
Evidence of 10,000-Year-Old Terraforming in the Amazon
The first cultures of the Amazon created thousands of artificial forest islands while domesticating wild plants to grow food, effectively terraforming various regions of the Amazon rainforest, according to a…
More Than 10,000 Years Ago, People inhabited the Amazon Creating Settlements
Archeological excavations in the Amazon have revealed that more than 10,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers occupied southwestern parts of the Amazon rainforest. This discovery comes as a surprise as it is…
The Amazon’s Legendary Boiling River is Real; It Can Boil Animals Alive
The Amazonian river can boil animals alive. An ancestral legend in the Peruvian Amazon speaks of a mysterious, boiling river. Hidden deep within the rainforest, this body of water is…