Take a hit of history and blast off on a journey through the Shocking lost civilization that continues to be discovered in the Amazon rainforest. Watch as Graham Hancock explains on the Joe Rogan podcast.

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Amazon basin is huge the Amazon basin is 7 million square
kilometres in area and within it five
and a half million square kilometres
remains almost entirely unstudied by
archeologists and that's the five and a
half million square kilometres that is
still covered by dense rainforest and to
put that into perspective five and a
half million square kilometres is the
size of the entire Indian subcontinent
so it's like saying we've done world
archaeology but we've just ignored India
you know we've done world archaeology
but we've just ignored the Amazon it's
the same in the same migrant five and a
half million square kilometers the view
was again there was a dogma there was a preconception human beings
couldn't have flourished in the Amazon
it's a it's not a resource-rich area the
soils are poor it's a difficult area
challenging to get to very far from the
bering straits so the view was that
humans hadn't entered the Amazon until
about a thousand years ago and then
gradually little by little that view has
begun to change and it's begun to change
because of the tragic clearances of the
Amazon because the Amazon rainforest is
literally being cut down and turned into
soya bean farms and and cattle ranches
and in that cutting down process has
emerged things that shouldn't be there
at all for example evidence that large
cities flourished in the Amazon enormous
cities which were larger than the there
was a Spanish explorer who went down the
Amazon River system in 1541 to 1542 he
was the first European to cross the
entire length of South America from west
to east along the Amazon he reported
seeing incredible cities advanced
arts-and-crafts millions of people a
thriving culture and hundred years later
when other Europeans got into the Amazon
they couldn't find these cities so they
said oh Francisco or IANA that was his
name made it all up it was just a it was just
a fantasy and then in the last decade as
the clearances of the Amazon have
proceeded we've begun to see the traces
of those cities what happened was that
the Spaniards brought smallpox into the
Amazon smallpox devastated the local
population because there was no immunity
to it there was a massive die-off the
cities were deserted within a 50 years
they were completely overgrown by the
jungle and that's why they were not seen
by the explorers who came in a hundred
years later but now the junk is being
cleared those cities are emerging.

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