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AI Archaeology System ArchaeoMind Discovers Lost City in the Amazon: Breakthrough in Fusing Remote Sensing and Paleoclimate Data

ArchaeoMind identified a pre-Columbian city capable of housing 100,000 residents deep in the Amazon by integrating satellite remote sensing, LiDAR, and paleoclimate reconstruction data.

On August 10, 2028, Brazil's National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN) and AI company DeepScan jointly announced that the ArchaeoMind system had discovered a large pre-Columbian city ruin in central Amazonas state.

The city, named "Uruapura," is estimated to have housed between 80,000 and 120,000 residents and existed from approximately 500 to 1400 CE. This discovery challenges the long-held academic assumption that the Amazon rainforest was sparsely populated before European contact.

ArchaeoMind's architecture comprises three core modules. The first is a multispectral remote sensing analysis module capable of penetrating dense canopy to identify soil density anomalies up to 2 meters below the surface. The second is a paleoclimate reconstruction module that reconstructs climate changes over the past 2,000 years in 50-year intervals using pollen fossils and isotope ratios from lake sediments. The third is a settlement prediction module that integrates topography, water sources, soil fertility, and climate data to predict where ancient humans were most likely to settle.

Project lead and archaeologist Maria Santos explained that ArchaeoMind's breakthrough lies in "understanding ancient site selection logic before searching." The system first identified 47 "high-potential areas" across the Amazon, then conducted detailed analysis of each. Uruapura was the 23rd area verified on-site and by far the largest discovery.

Field teams uncovered extensive road networks, complex irrigation systems, and large quantities of ceramic fragments. Carbon-14 dating indicates the city persisted for approximately 900 years. "This means a highly organized urban civilization once existed in the Amazon," Santos said. "We need to rewrite South America's prehistory."

DeepScan revealed that ArchaeoMind will next be deployed for archaeological surveys in Southeast Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.