Divergent Files
Was the Lost City of Z Really an Amazon Civilization?
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For nearly a century, the Lost City of Z sounded like jungle legend.
A vanished explorer. A hidden civilization. A rainforest said to be too wild to hold anything that advanced.
In 1925, British explorer Percy Fawcett disappeared in the Amazon while searching for what he believed was a lost ancient city. For decades, many dismissed the idea as fantasy. But modern archaeology has made that…