It’s really tiring to see that every new finding shows us how everything is Eurocentric and problematic. What is the point of putting that vapid moralising into the article? It’s not even that true. Europeans have been searching for cities in the Amazon for hundreds of years and found evidence that they existed.
2003 - Lost cities of the Amazon revealed: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna3077413
2008 - Ancient Amazon Actually Highly Urbanized: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lost-amazon-citie...
2019 - Long lost cities in the Amazon were once home to millions of people: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132130-300-long-los...