The scientists found many signs of the existence of the legendary town called El Dorado, in the Brazilian Amazon forest. Quite spectacular discovery, among others thanks to the online Google Earth service.

Signs on the surface of such land is difficult to be seen from the surface of the earth. But thanks to Google Earth that provides detailed images from satellites, various amazing discoveries occurred.

As reported by FOXNews, the mystery of the city of El Dorado has attracted the curiosity of the travelers to discover its existence for a long time. But until now, nothing worked, not even rare adventurer died in the mission.

Thanks to the help of Google Earth, the three scientists of Finland Martti Pärssinen, Denise Schaan and Alceu Ranzi, it seems that lucky to find El Dorado. Through the journal Antiquity, they publish more than 200 signs on the ground in the Amazon.

The scientists believe the forms found in the Google Earth that, were the remnants of El Dorado in the form of roads, bridges and so on. The size of the findings led to the approximate area that formerly occupied the El Dorado and 60,000 inhabitants.

David Grann, author of books about the lost city also believes the importance of these findings can not be underestimated. Of course, further exploration is needed to follow up.

“For centuries, scientists assumed that the city in the forest is a kind of death trap, where only a small primitive tribe that existed,” he explained. “However, these findings indicate that the Amazon has become the home of a great civilization.”

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