The oldest network of cities in the Amazon is hiding under the Ecuadorian jungle

In 2015, laser mapping technology revealed the existence of a massive pre-Hispanic settlement in the eastern foothills of the Andes, at least 2,500 years old. Now, research published in the journal ‘Science’ provides new details.

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