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Lost Cities of the Amazon Discovered From the Air
smithsonianmag.com ^
| May 25, 2022
| Brian Handwerk
Posted on 05/26/2022 8:22:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
05/26/2022 8:22:33 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/26/2022 8:22:49 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
They should also look at south Africa.
There are very visible ‘grids’ of what must have once been a HUGE system of waterways.
Also, the entire north of Africa looks like a gigantic wave swept over it.
Right over the ‘Eye of the Sahara’ which could be man-made and the real original Atlantis. A wave overtaking it would certainly explain a ‘single day and night of misfortune’.
Clearly SOMETHING huge and disastrous happened to Africa.
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posted on
05/26/2022 8:27:19 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
To: BenLurkin
“Civilization” is anything but. Doesn’t matter which continent. City states had to fortify, because other city states would attack.
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posted on
05/26/2022 8:28:12 AM PDT
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/26/2022 8:29:51 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: BenLurkin
Though it faced an unknown end, the culture that thrived here adds to the growing evidence that the Amazon isn’t actually one of the world’s great untouched wilderness areas—and wasn’t even an unbroken forest until relatively modern times. So, the Amazon rain forest is not really the "lungs" of the planet, after all.
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posted on
05/26/2022 8:30:11 AM PDT
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marktwain
To: Mr. K
Wow!!! Where can I read about this?
To: BenLurkin
This played an important part of the “Lost City of Z” theory of Percy Fawcett.
For a GREAT read, read “The Lost City of Z” by David Grann.
Also, read about Orellana, the Spanish Explorer who’s men built a boat and floated down the Amazon to the sea, and, then around to the Caribbean in Buddy Levy’s River of Darkness.
To: Cowgirl of Justice
There is a large part of this story in “The Lost City of Z”.
Michael Heckenberger (mentioned in the article) was interviewed in that book and he showed David Grann some of these settlements.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/26/2022 8:42:13 AM PDT
by
Pollard
(If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
To: Mr. K
Also, the entire north of Africa looks like a gigantic wave swept over it.
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I’ve read that some 8,000 years ago, what is now the Sahara Desert was a lush green area. There are rivers which once use to connect with the Nile which have vanished. Some 5,000 years ago, the area became a desert.
What ancient cities might lie under the sands?
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posted on
05/26/2022 8:46:43 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
To: Pollard
do they ever find these in the african jungle
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posted on
05/26/2022 8:54:56 AM PDT
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Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: Conan the Librarian
Read Lost City of Z quite a few years back. I recall being quite engaged in it in the middle of the book. Nice plot arc, but I can’t remember the ending. I feel like I was disappointed. Didn’t he die at the end?
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posted on
05/26/2022 9:02:04 AM PDT
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: Chode
No. Because white supremacy and systemic racism. Thought you knew.
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posted on
05/26/2022 9:10:52 AM PDT
by
sphinx
To: BenLurkin
500 to 2400 CE????
What the hell does CE mean???
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posted on
05/26/2022 9:22:57 AM PDT
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joe fonebone
(And the people said NO! The End)
To: Flick Lives
the real question (on leftist minds) is who caused the golbull warming that caused that area to dry up?
To: joe fonebone
What the hell does CE mean??? Christ's Erasure.
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posted on
05/26/2022 9:26:39 AM PDT
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Sirius Lee
(They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
To: Conan the Librarian
“For a GREAT read, read “The Lost City of Z” by David Grann.”
I saw the movie a few years ago, and I liked that. I then went to my local library to get the book but it was not carried in the library’s circulation. I had intended to see if my library could find a copy through Inter-Library Loan, but other things came up and I never did.
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posted on
05/26/2022 9:28:50 AM PDT
by
ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
To: Mr. K
They should also look at south Africa. There are very visible ‘grids’ of what must have once been a HUGE system of waterways. Also, the entire north of Africa looks like a gigantic wave swept over it. Do you have links? Would love to see the pictures.
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posted on
05/26/2022 9:35:56 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Thank God for Texas Law Enforcement and our brave Border Patrol..)
To: Conan the Librarian
Though the sites don’t have the much larger monumental centers found in Bolivia, they were connected by a system of roads, bridges and canals, all situated in a large engineered landscape of fields, fish farms and other features. Intriguingly, this low-density, urban culture—which was more like a cluster of suburban communities without an urban center—thrived in the same region where Percey Fawcett vanished in search of his Lost City of Z.FYI
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posted on
05/26/2022 9:40:29 AM PDT
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GOPJ
(Thank God for Texas Law Enforcement and our brave Border Patrol..)
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