Did you know giant land designs similar to those in the Nazca Desert have been discovered in the Amazon Basin, suggesting that advanced societies once proliferated in the region? Several years ago researchers studying satellite images of recently deforested areas of western Brazil discovered strange lines, ditches and other earthworks. At first they thought it may have been trench remnants of some 20th-century guerrilla stronghold. But closer inspection revealed them to be hundreds if not thousands of years old. Since then, researchers have found more than 200 massive structures across an area of 155 square miles. Read more about this mysterious find in articles from Discovery News (Deforestation Reveals Lost Amazon Civilization) and The New York Times (Once Hidden by Forest, Carvings in Land Attest to Amazon’s Lost World).
