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What Scientists Just Discovered Deep In the Amazon Jungle That Shouldn't Exist...

Scientists were stunned when they found the ruins of an ancient city hidden under the dense Amazon rainforest. Based on what we know, an advanced civilization like this should not have existed there thousands of years ago. The remains included huge pyramids, finely carved stone monuments, and artifacts showing that people understood complicated subjects like astronomy. How could a society develop and flourish in such an isolated, difficult environment? Where did their advanced knowledge and skills come from? Join us as we explore this shocking scientific discovery of an ancient civilization in the Amazon jungle that shouldn't exist.

Graham chuckled to himself as he pictured the looks on the 19th-century archaeologists' faces when they first laid eyes on the massive stone heads. It's hard to imagine what it's like stumbling across something like that in the dense jungles of Mexico. Tall sculptures over 9 feet tall, weighing tons, with distinctly non-European facial features like flat noses and fleshy cheeks. And the giant carved helmets: nobody's ever found a real helmet like that in any ancient culture.

Those early explorers had no idea what they were looking at. They knew these heads were incredibly old, predating the more familiar Maya and Aztec civilizations. But they didn't realize they had discovered the first major civilization of ancient Mesoamerica: the Olmec.