Amazing discovery resembling Stonehenge found in Amazon rain forest
‘In Acre state, in the western Brazilian Amazon, an amazing discovery has been made. After flying drones over the area, scientists have discovered that the rain forest is also home to hundreds of ancient earthworks that resemble Stonehenge.
For the first time, its been proven that prehistoric settlers in Brazil created giant enclosures by clearing wooded areas — indicating that the “pristine” rain forest ecosytem that is so often celebrated by ecologists may not be so untouched after all.
Trees have been concealing the abandoned enclosures for centuries — but modern deforestation has unearthed more than 450 earthworks, or as archaeologists call them, “geolyphs.” Scientists from the United Kingdom and Brazil made the discovery last year, after flying drones in the area.’
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