Roads, farming threaten Ecuador ‘lost city’ complex

Shielded by the jungle for hundreds of years, the remains of a massive 2,500-year-old network of Ecuadoran cities are being threatened by road and farm encroachment just as its long-held secrets are being revealed, researchers say. Traces of an Amazonian “lost city” were first discovered in 1978, but the full extent of what is now […]

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