Source: Cool Earth
A lost civilisation has been found in the Amazon rainforest, by scientists excavating the area in the search for information about what the area may have been like in the past.
Researchers have discovered evidence found in a deforested region that suggests a rainforest tribe of as many as 60,000 people could have lived in the area.Structures - or earthworks - found in the soil include 30 foot wide ditches and evidence of walls, which suggest that the region was home to a village at some point in the past.
Most of the earthworks were found on a plateau some 200 metres above the forest floor, the scientists said.
Speaking to the Times, author of the Lost City of Z David Grann said that the discovery is extremely important.
"These discoveries show the Amazon was, in fact, home to a large civilisation that pre-dated the Incas and built an extraordinarily sophisticated society with monumental earthworks."