Secrets of the Dead

Season 20, Episode 5

Episode Title: Hidden In The Amazon

Air Date: 2022-11-09

Overview:

Recent discoveries, including funerary urns with highly decorative patterns, and technological advances like the remote sensor system known as LiDAR, 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.