00:00A city bigger than London, hidden under this jungle.
00:04Laser scanning technology stripped the jungle away digitally and found it.
00:08The streets and plazas are still there, under the roots.
00:12Ancient roads stretch hundreds of kilometers through the Amazon, still intact.
00:17They engineered the soil itself.
00:20It is still fertile today.
00:22Ten million people once lived here.
00:24Nobody knew they existed.
00:26Their pottery shows an advanced culture, dating back 2,000 years.
00:31The first European explorer described these cities in 1542.
00:36Nobody believed him.
00:37For 500 years, his accounts were called fantasy.
00:41He was right.
00:43New scans keep finding more every month.
00:46More cities, more roads.
00:4890% of the Amazon has never been scanned.
00:51Not once.
00:52We have found maybe 1% of what is actually down there.
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