Deep in the Amazon rainforest, researchers have uncovered an ancient structure that rivals the size of some modern cities.

Missouri State University archaeologists Daniel Pierce and Christopher Bodine are heading to Brazil to study ancient ...

In the thick green depths of the Amazon, long thought to be untouched wilderness, a stunning discovery has emerged. For decades, the rainforest was seen as too hostile for ancient urban life. But that ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." An estimated 90 percent of human Amazonian history is lost within the jungle itself. A new discovery has ...

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of ancient cities in the Amazon rainforest believed to be over two thousand years old. Located in a region called the Upano Valley in eastern Ecuador, these ...

Archaeologists recently rediscovered the long-hidden traces of an ancient Indigenous society in western Ecuador’s Upano Valley: more than 6,000 earthen platforms that once supported houses and ...

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 ...