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When a radar finds a lost city

S4 · E72 · 08 Aug 2025 · 11 min

This network of ancient cities, 2,500 years old, buried beneath the plateaus of the Ecuadorian Amazon, has been revealed thanks to a revolutionary archaeological technique. An image that questions the origins of our civilizations and fuels our fascination with “lost cities”.