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Lost Amazon Cities Unearthed: LIDAR Reveals Ancient Urban Networks

Lost Amazon Cities Unearthed: LIDAR Reveals Ancient Urban Networks

Over the centuries, explorers and scientists treated the Amazon as green desert- it could not support huge complex civilizations. The oral reportings of indigenous people of lost great cities being consumed by the jungle lacked evidence and was attributed to myth. But now, courtesy of LIDAR ( Light Detection and Ranging ) we are scooping […]