SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Research archaeologists at Missouri State University are hoping to embark on an expedition to the Amazon Rainforest to find evidence of an ancient civilization.

Researchers at MSU and Terra Incognita Research Institute, Dr. Daniel Pierce and Chris Bodine, call this an "Indiana Jones" style archaeological research project and are hoping the public finds it as interesting as they do.

Dr. Pierce and Bodine have discovered geoglyphs through LiDAR that they believe to be ancient structures hidden deep within the rainforest. LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging, and uses Laser pulses to create a 3D image that shows everything on the ground, even through dense rainforest.

The area where they have located these geoglyphs has never been explored archaeologically; now t

See Full Page