Brazil

Kuhikugu

Kuhikugu: The Lost Amazonian Cities Rewriting the History of the Rainforest Deep in the southern Amazon rainforest, at the headwaters of Brazil’s Xingu River, lies one of the most transformative archaeological discoveries of the past quarter century. Known as Kuhikugu, this network of ancient settlements is forcing researchers to rethink what once existed in the world’s largest tropical forest. Far from being an untouched wilderness populated only by small, scattered groups, the Amazon was home to...