Amazonian deforestation reveals lost cities

Simone Romero at the New York Times:

The deforestation that has stripped the Amazon since the 1970s has also exposed a long-hidden secret lurking underneath thick rain forest: flawlessly designed geometric shapes spanning hundreds of yards in diameter.

I see ghosts.

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