Arqueólogos Descobriram Algo Sobre a Cidade Perdida de Ratanabá Que Muda Tudo
O Que a Terra Guardou
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In May 2022, the journal Nature published real cities discovered with lasers beneath the Amazon rainforest in Bolivia. Sixteen days later, the whole of Brazil was talking about something else: Ratanabá, the supposed capital of the world, 450 million years old, with tunnels and gold statues. In this video, I debunk Ratanabá with four simple questions and show what archaeologists actually found.
From the garden cities of the Xingu, with roads aligned with the sun, to the earthen pyramids of Bolivia, the 2,500-year-old cities of Ecuador and the geoglyphs of Acre, to the discovery of the Aquiry civilization, published in 2026: 432 structures mapped with Lidar and a population that may have reached 3 million people. And now, in 2026, Ratanabá has returned, claiming to use the same technology. I explain how to differentiate one from the other.
Here on the channel, we focus on real archaeology, separating what's proven from what's interpretation.
Which of these discoveries impressed you the most? Tell us in the comments.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Two news stories from 2022
1:38 What Ratanabá says
3:13 The four questions
6:38 The 'crazy ones' were right
7:27 Why the forest seemed empty
9:12 Fawcett and the garden cities of the Xingu
11:38 Bolivia: the study that almost nobody saw
13:56 Ecuador: the oldest cities
15:37 Acre: the forgotten drawings
17:12 Aquiry: the discovery of 2026
19:33 What were the geoglyphs used for?
20:57 Black Earth: the technology that wasn't lost
22:54 What is still hidden
23:59 Ratanabá returns with laser
26:14 Why myth is harmful
28:13 The two news stories, again
SOURCES
BBC News Brazil (June 15, 2022): "Ratanabá: archaeologist explains why The legend of a 'lost city in the Amazon' makes no sense" (Eduardo Góes Neves, USP)
Estadão Verifica: "The current hoax is 'Ratanabá'"
g1 Mato Grosso (06/30/2022): hypotheses for straight lines; Suzana Hirooka; Watatakalu Yawalapiti
Heckenberger et al., Science (2008), via Scientific American: settlements of the Upper Xingu
Prümers et al., "Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon", Nature 606 (2022)
Rostain et al., "Two thousand years of garden urbanism in the Upper Amazon", Science 383 (2024)
Peripato et al., "More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia", Science 382 (2023)
Pärssinen et al., "Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia", Nature (2026); BBC News Brazil, "Aquiry Civilization"
Schmidt et al., Science Advances (2023): black earth and Kuikuro practices
FAPESP Agency (2004): geoglyphs recorded in 1977 and rediscovered in 2000
Brazilian Society of Archaeology: "Dakila Pesquisas and archaeological research licenses"
Diário do Negócio (September 29, 2026): Ratanabá and laser mapping, according to Dakila
Illustrative images generated by artificial intelligence; historical reconstructions are not real photographs.
#Ratanabá #Archaeology #Amazon #LostCity #AncientCivilizations #Geoglyphs #History
20 Comments
Verifique com seus próprios olhos, antes de julgar quem faz pesquisa verdadeiras
Toda história da humanidade foi manipulada e escondida
Não é mito
Ratanaba é real
O GO usando de suas técnicas mais que conhecidas. Desviar o foco, dar uma outra percepção. Recado: nada e nem ninguém irá parar a revelação.
"Busquem Conhecimentos".
Depois de tantas perseguições DEUS a prometeu que viveriam em paz por lonģos tempos.
Arqueólogos Descobriram Algo Sobre a Cidade Perdida de Ratanabá Que Muda Tudo
O Que a Terra Guardou
23,912 views
In May 2022, the journal Nature published real cities discovered with lasers beneath the Amazon rainforest in Bolivia. Sixteen days later, the whole of Brazil was talking about something else: Ratanabá, the supposed capital of the world, 450 million years old, with tunnels and gold statues. In this video, I debunk Ratanabá with four simple questions and show what archaeologists actually found.
From the garden cities of the Xingu, with roads aligned with the sun, to the earthen pyramids of Bolivia, the 2,500-year-old cities of Ecuador and the geoglyphs of Acre, to the discovery of the Aquiry civilization, published in 2026: 432 structures mapped with Lidar and a population that may have reached 3 million people. And now, in 2026, Ratanabá has returned, claiming to use the same technology. I explain how to differentiate one from the other.
Here on the channel, we focus on real archaeology, separating what's proven from what's interpretation.
Which of these discoveries impressed you the most? Tell us in the comments.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Two news stories from 2022
1:38 What Ratanabá says
3:13 The four questions
6:38 The 'crazy ones' were right
7:27 Why the forest seemed empty
9:12 Fawcett and the garden cities of the Xingu
11:38 Bolivia: the study that almost nobody saw
13:56 Ecuador: the oldest cities
15:37 Acre: the forgotten drawings
17:12 Aquiry: the discovery of 2026
19:33 What were the geoglyphs used for?
20:57 Black Earth: the technology that wasn't lost
22:54 What is still hidden
23:59 Ratanabá returns with laser
26:14 Why myth is harmful
28:13 The two news stories, again
SOURCES
BBC News Brazil (June 15, 2022): "Ratanabá: archaeologist explains why The legend of a 'lost city in the Amazon' makes no sense" (Eduardo Góes Neves, USP)
Estadão Verifica: "The current hoax is 'Ratanabá'"
g1 Mato Grosso (06/30/2022): hypotheses for straight lines; Suzana Hirooka; Watatakalu Yawalapiti
Heckenberger et al., Science (2008), via Scientific American: settlements of the Upper Xingu
Prümers et al., "Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon", Nature 606 (2022)
Rostain et al., "Two thousand years of garden urbanism in the Upper Amazon", Science 383 (2024)
Peripato et al., "More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia", Science 382 (2023)
Pärssinen et al., "Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia", Nature (2026); BBC News Brazil, "Aquiry Civilization"
Schmidt et al., Science Advances (2023): black earth and Kuikuro practices
FAPESP Agency (2004): geoglyphs recorded in 1977 and rediscovered in 2000
Brazilian Society of Archaeology: "Dakila Pesquisas and archaeological research licenses"
Diário do Negócio (September 29, 2026): Ratanabá and laser mapping, according to Dakila
Illustrative images generated by artificial intelligence; historical reconstructions are not real photographs.
#Ratanabá #Archaeology #Amazon #LostCity #AncientCivilizations #Geoglyphs #History