Ecuador Archive

LIDAR Discovers Lost Ancient Cities Older Than Any Known Complex Amazonian Society

AncientPages.com | January 12, 2024

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - LIDAR has once again demonstrated its advantage when locating hidden ancient sites in the jungle. Light Detection and Ranging technology is indispensable to

Archaeology

Latin America’s Oldest Beer Resurrected From 400-Year-Old Yeast

AncientPages.com | August 4, 2022

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Beer has been a popular beverage for thousands of years and will undoubtedly continue to be enjoyed in the future. Ecuadoran bioengineer Javier

This is a shard of an ancient ceramic vessel from the insufficiently studied San Pedro complex found on Real Alto site, Ecuador. Credits: FEFU

Archaeology

6,500-Year-Old Pottery Belongs To Unknown Ancient Culture That Lived In Ecuador

AncientPages.com | August 7, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists found shards of ceramic vessels that date back to 4640 - 4460 BC, and are from an unknown ancient culture, probably related

Ancient Mysteries

Ancient Giants In Ecuador Were Killed By Fire From The Sky – Indian Legends Reveal

AncientPages.com | December 12, 2017

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When Spanish Conquistadors encountered natives in Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1543, they were told a tribe of giants once inhabited the Indians’ land. These horrifying