Pre-Columbian era

Archaeologists have discovered the largest and oldest network of pre-Hispanic cities ever found in the Amazon rainforest, revealing a 2,500-year-old lost civilization of farmers.

The vast site, which covers more than 1,000 square kilometers, was long hidden by the jungle in the Upano valley on the foothills of the Andes mountain range in eastern Ecuador.

The Embassy of Mexico in Turkey inaugurated an exhibition, titled "Codices of Mexico. The Ancient Books of the New World" on June 29 at CerModern.

Malagana, also known as the Malagana Treasure is an archaeological site of Colombia named after the sugarcane estate where it was accidentally discovered in 1992. During a few days after its discovery, the place was subject to a large-scale looting with a rough estimate of 4 tons of pre-Columbian artifacts illegally removed from the burial mounds.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has concluded his Latin America tour one day earlier than planned, skipping a visit to pre-Columbian pyramids in Mexico, Anadolu Agency reported on Feb. 13, citing presidential sources.