Lost Cities of the Amazon

Season 1

For centuries experts believed the Amazon was an untouched wilderness, but they were wrong. Startling new discoveries are changing everything they thought they knew about one of the world's wildest regions. News of an incredible lost civilization is just coming in but its only the beginning. In 2019, teams of archaeologists & scientists are going back to the jungle to expose its secrets.

20203 episodes7+

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S1 E1 - Secrets in the Jungle
June 20, 2020
42min
TV-PG
New discoveries in the Amazon are revealing evidence of a long-lost civilization that built giant cities of untold treasures. With the help of the latest tech and cutting-edge archaeology, experts investigate the clues these mysterious people left behind.
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S1 E2 - Rise of a Superpower
June 27, 2020
42min
TV-PG
Archaeologists are finding hard proof of the prehistoric civilization that once thrived in the Amazon, and with the help of cutting-edge technology, these new discoveries reveal how these long-lost people built an advanced society in the hostile jungle.
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S1 E3 - Amazon Apocalypse
July 4, 2020
43min
TV-PG
New discoveries reveal the mystery of what happened to the ancient superpower that once thrived in the Amazon jungles, and using cutting-edge archaeological methods, experts are hot on the trail of the perpetrators that caused this civilization to fall.
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