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Secrets of the Dead
Hidden in the Amazon
Season 20
Episode 4
Recent discoveries and technological advances are shedding new light on our understanding of pre-Columbian societies in the Amazon. Scientists speculate the rainforest was home to between 8 and 10 million people living in large, well-established communities.
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