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LOST CITIES OF THE AMAZON FOUND — LiDAR Tech Vindicates Explorer's 'Fantasy' Quest

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LOST CITIES OF THE AMAZON FOUND — LiDAR Tech Vindicates Explorer's 'Fantasy' Quest

Decades after explorer Percy Fawcett's theory of an Amazonian civilization was dismissed, laser-based technology is penetrating the dense jungle canopy to reveal large, organized societies that deliberately reshaped their environment.

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He spent years gathering clues from old manuscripts, indigenous accounts, and his own expeditions. And for decades, his theory was dismissed as fantasy. But modern archaeology has begun finding evidence that he may in fact have been onto something.
Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z
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The Atlas Obscura Podcast · Sibyl’s CaveAug 6

THE REAL MURDER THAT INSPIRED POE'S FIRST DETECTIVE STORY

Edgar Allan Poe became obsessed with the unsolved 1841 murder of New York cigar girl Mary Rogers, visiting crime scenes and interviewing witnesses before using the case as the basis for "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."

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