In 1925, Colonel Percy Fawcett provided himself with machetes, rifles, a ukulele and a British imperial stab and set off for the unexplored Amazon to find the lost city of Z. Somewhere, hidden in what he called “the last great white space in the world”. ”This great explorer was convinced that there was a fallen civilization.
We don’t know if he found it: he never came back.
Now, however, the hidden corners of Fawcett’s white space have been illuminated with modern technology: revealing the details of a vast jungle city on the banks of the Amazon, much of which had been obscured by vegetation for centuries.
Using a technology called lidar, which is able to see through the canopy, researchers have studied a territory in present-day Bolivia.