Jungle

LiDAR reveals network of ancient Maya markets hidden under jungle canopy

The newly mapped complexes display “nested” arrangements of low platforms.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The Amazon rainforest.
Colombian soldiers stand guard as members of a humanitarian caravan comprising senators and social organisations, meet with residents, to demand ceasefire and peace in the Catatumbo region, after attacks by rebels from the leftist National Liberation Army, in the municipality of El Tarra, Colombia.

Dozens of kidnapped Colombian soldiers released, says defense ministry

The soldiers were kidnapped on August 25 after clashes in a rural part of the El Retorno municipality left 11 guerrillas dead, including a commander of a dissident faction of the former FARC rebels.

|ByREUTERS
Under the jungles, Lidars helps researchers find the ancient civilizations of the Amazon. Illustration.

Under the jungles, Lidars helps researchers find the ancient civilizations of the Amazon

A collective work titled "Archaeology of the Amazon" offers a broad overview of traces left by thirteen millennia of human occupation over a territory larger than that of the European Union.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF