An Explorer Vanished Searching For A 'Lost Civilization' In The Amazon—Now Archaeologists Think They May Have Found It The Debri... (opens in new tab)

"The Lost City of Z" may have been found. Micah Hanks relates how the still-lost 1925 Percy Fawcett expedition may indeed have been a quest for a real civilization. Once again, lidar has "unearthed" a remarkable complex of ancient building and "raised causeways, canals, reservoirs, and engineered agricultural systems that cover an area of close to 20,000 square kilometers," this time in northern Bolivia. A greater appreciation of pre-Columbian life in the Americas continues. Hanks gives us mo...