Was the Lost City of Z Really an Amazon Civilization?

For nearly a century, the Lost City of Z sounded like jungle legend.

A vanished explorer. A hidden civilization. A rainforest said to be too wild to hold anything that advanced.

In 1925, British explorer Percy Fawcett disappeared in the Amazon while searching for what he believed was a lost ancient city. For decades, many dismissed the idea as fantasy. But modern archaeology has made that harder to do.

LiDAR scans and field research have revealed ancient roads, platforms, plazas, canals, reservoirs, settlements, and engineered landscapes hidden beneath the Amazon canopy. Discoveries across Bolivia...