[Article] 'How I was fooled by 400-year-old fake news'

Makes me wonder what other things get lost to time or get overlooked because a larger group controlled "the narrative".

Recently watched a documentary about technology being used to scan the Amazon, which revealed an "unknown" city that used to exist in the heart of the Amazon, as well as revealed evidence that pre-European Amazon was very similar to early-settlers' New England - mostly farmland, rather than vast forest with evidence of large tracts being managed, and purposely shaped for agriculture. Also revealed that one native tribe, which now is just a small village and a couple hundred people, sits on top of a site that was once a major city. Swallowed up by the jungle and time.

And each of these respective pieces of peoples' history happened at a time merely a few generations ago, yet we have barely scratched the surface of recovering what was lost.