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As the diocesan phase of the synod ended on Aug. 15, America touched base with some well-informed sources for insight into how the synod has gone so far in the Amazon region and Asia.

Traces of blood have been found on the boat of a suspect arrested in connection with the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips, 57, who went missing Sunday.

The cities, built by the Casarabe communities between 500-1400 AD, are located in the Llanos de Mojos savannah-forest, Bolivia, and have been hidden under the thick tree canopies for centuries.

A recently published study shows that the Amazon, the world's most vast rainforest with an area of more than 2 million square miles in South A...

Detail of a circular mound village called Dona Maria with ‘twin’ village. Image credit: Iriarte et al., doi: 10.5334/jcaa.45. “Lidar provides a new opportunity to locate and document earthen sites in forested parts of Amazonia characterized by dense vegetation,” said Professor Jose Iriarte, an archaeologist and archaeobotanist at the University of Exeter. “It can also document the smallest surficial earthen features in the recently opened pasture areas.” Professor Iriarte and his c...

) Each settlement is connected across the wider landscape by further straight roads that also radiate out from the center of the villages. Furthermore, the complexity of this design matrix is multiplied ten-fold when we consider that some small groups of villages “exhibit regular distances.” So not only do their locations and alignments reflect cosmic principals, but they also adhere to carefully calculated measurements on the landscape, of “2.5–3 km [1.6–1.9 miles] and 5–6 km [3....

A new study has suggested that around 700 years ago when Amazonians laid out their villages, they did so in a clock face