Have you ever heard about the "Legend of El Dorado," the city in South America that was made entirely of gold? The very first European explorers in the Amazon in the 1500's reported huge cities. When more explorers made it into the Amazon area about 100 years later, those cities couldn't be found. Over centuries, a legend was born that there was a Lost city, built entirely of gold, somewhere in the Amazon basin.
An explorer in the early 1900's, named Percy Fawcett, became obsessed with a lost city in the Amazon he called "Z." A few months ago, I read the book, The Lost City of Z, about Fawcett. On his 8th expedition into the Amazon, looking for the lost city of Z, Fawcett disappeared, in 1925. Dozens of other explorers later went into the Amazon, looking for both Fawcett, and "Z," and disappeared themselves. Fawcett never found the Lost city of Z, but he did report finding earthen mounds, and ancient pottery in places. In reality, he actually did find parts of the "Lost Cities of the Amazon," but they weren't built with stone, with huge temples, like the cities of the Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas. Fawcett didn't recognize the earthen mounds and bits of pottery as remains of the cities he was looking for.
But now, partly because of the massive deforestation for cattle ranching, and LIDAR scans showing huge, shaped, earthen mounds under the jungle cover still remaining, there is a lot of evidence that large villages and cities once existed there. More and more signs of these societies are being found on a regular basis.
If you're interested in the lost cities of the Amazon, the 7 minute video above gives a good overview of what has been found. There are many more videos that go into more depth on the subject, as well as interviews and talks with Graham Hancock, who has written a book on this subject.
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