Read the Portuguese version here. In the badlands of the southwestern Amazon, Antonia Barbosa is fighting to protect ancient archaeological finds from Brazil’s unstoppable $523 billion agribusiness ...

Scientists recently discovered hundreds of monumental, geometric earthworks known as "geoglyphs" in northern Brazil from the ...

Martti Pärssinen, lead author of the study, said the discovery changes scientists’ understanding of the “supposedly pristine ...

Up to 3 million people once lived here. The jungle hid their monuments for 2,000 years.

Archaeologists discovered hundreds of massive glyphs created by an ancient civilization hidden beneath the sprawling fauna of the Amazon rainforest.

"That old idea of a pristine Amazônia falls apart." ...

When you think of the Amazon, the first thing that comes to mind is the image of a wilderness completely untouched by ancient ...

New airborne laser scans surveying the Amazon have found ancient human structures rewriting the history of this allegedly pristine wilderness.

As water levels dropped, carvings dating back to ancient civilizations were revealed. Archaeologist Jaime Oliveira, from the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute (Iphan), shows ancient ...