The Amazon rainforest, long perceived as a pristine wilderness, is now being unveiled as a cradle of ancient garden towns. This revelation, made possible through cutting-edge scientific methods like ...

For centuries, the Amazon rainforest was thought to be a vast, untouched wilderness, inhabited only by scattered hunter-gatherer societies. But cutting-edge Lidar technology has just shattered that ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS — Forest Park is far from the Amazon rainforest, but that's where 5 On Your Side met research archaeologists Dr. Daniel Pierce and Chris Bodine. While both call Springfield home working at ...

A Catholic priest, Pedro Porras, was the first to research and document the Amazon rainforest’s Upano Valley culture dating back 2,500 years. He did archaeological research all across Ecuador, often ...

A series of earthen mounds and buried roads in Ecuador was first noticed more than two decades ago by archaeologist Stéphen Rostain. But at the time, "I wasn’t sure how it all fit together,” said ...

AGUA CLARA, Brazil — Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month span, the ...