Signs of what could be a previously unknown ancient civilisation are emerging from beneath the felled trees of the Amazon. Some 260 giant avenues, ditches and enclosures have been spotted from the air in a region straddling Brazil's border with Bolivia. (Previously: Lost City of Z and Colonel Fawcett)

... up somewhere considerably over the edge of not just credulousness but outright delusion—our intrepid explorer Colonel Fawcett, for example, having come to believe at the very end that he was looking not just for an archaeological site but the New World equivalent of Madame Blavatsky's Tibetan or Afghan home of the Masters. (I considered ...

For all you fans of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, here's the city he was looking for: Wiki: The Lost City of Z is the name given by Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, a British surveyor, to a city that he thought existed in the jungle of ... city is described in great detail without providing a specific location. Fawcett allegedly heard about this city in the early 1900s and went to ...

... the evidence that Tiahuanaco was destroyed in a cataclysm. South America has been proposed as the site of Atlantis by number of early writers, including the British colonel Percy Fawcett, who vanished in the jungles of Brazil in 1925 while searching for a lost city of Atlantis. South America does have huge ruins and is across the Atlantic, ...