{
  "id": 242285,
  "title": "Lidar analysis reveals more than 20,000 pre-colonial earthworks under Amazonian rainforest",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/lidar-analysis-reveals-more-than-20-000-pre-colonial-earthworks-under",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-06T22:51:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Art Newspaper",
    "slug": "the-art-newspaper",
    "url": "https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/06/ancient-earthworks-amazonian-earthworks-aquiry-civilisation-lidar-brazil"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A new study based on aerial surveys suggests the pre-Columbian Aquiry civilisation had a much more developed and dispersed footprint than previously thought",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}