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 ...

The Amazon rainforest, long perceived as a pristine wilderness, is now being unveiled as a cradle of ancient garden towns. This revelation, made possible through cutting-edge scientific methods like ...

Missouri State University archaeologists Daniel Pierce and Christopher Bodine are heading to Brazil to study ancient Amazonian geoglyphs that may reveal an unknown civilization.

Read the Portuguese version here. In the badlands of the southwestern Amazon, Antonia Barbosa is fighting to protect ancient archaeological finds from Brazil’s unstoppable $523 billion agribusiness ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Recent stunning discoveries are exploding the myth of the Amazon as a primeval wilderness, revealing traces of ancient civilizations that flourished there for centuries. Dense settlements indicate ...

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 ...

Lasers have revealed a complex network of pre-Hispanic structures and roadways hidden beneath the canopy of the Amazon. At 2,500 years old, it's the earliest (and largest) example of an agricultural ...

Our understanding of ancient civilizations is constantly challenged by newly discovered ruins that defy mainstream historical and archaeological explanations. These fascinating remnants of the past ...

Researchers visit an ancient pyramid in Peru in NOVA's Ancient Builders of the Amazon. Image Credit: Federico Pardo for NOVA/GBH For 50 years, NOVA has taken viewers on adventures through time and ...

Two archaeologists from the American heartland are embarking on an Amazonian adventure to uncover the remains of a lost civilization — proving that world-class research can emerge from the Ozarks just ...