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Lost Mayan cities discovered in Mexican jungle

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Lost Mayan cities discovered in Mexican jungle

In the 1970s, an American explorer named Eric Von Euw explored a forest at the base of the Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula near the border of Guatemala called the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve...

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Myth of pristine Amazon rainforest busted as old cities reappear

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Myth of pristine Amazon rainforest busted as old cities reappear

Dreamscape: the Amazon was once lined with fields and plazas (Image: Mario Tama/Getty) The first Europeans to penetrate the Amazon rainforests reported cities, roads and fertile fields...

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