Archaeologists have just completed the first ground exploration of the ruins of a previously unknown city deep in the tropical rainforest of Honduras.
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The survey also revealed this was not just a single town or temple complex: The entire valley was once densely populated by people. The explorers are calling it a lost civilization.
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The only way in and out of the site was by helicopter. Benenson says the expedition hired three ex-British special forces soldiers to rappel into the brush and hack out a space for the helicopter to land. “There was absolutely no other way to get in or out,” Benenson says. “The ocean was probably 50 miles away through one of the densest jungles any of our people had ever encountered, filled with way too many snakes of a highly deadly nature.”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/have-archaeologists-discovered-the-lost-city-of-the-monkey-god/ar-BBic8oa
(The more discoveries, the more we realize huge gaps in the story of human history. Land clearing in the Amazon jungle has uncovered dozens of towns and evidence of terrain modification for agricultural use, including clear cutting centuries past.)
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