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Archaeologists have unearthed a hidden colonial town. Amazon a rainforest with origins tracing back to the 1700s. According to Eduardo Neves, the director of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at the University of São Paulo, who headed the research team, the Portuguese colony had been depicted on certain maps before; however, its precise position remained unclear. "The site had been deserted, with the jungle reclaiming it, and many of the stones were taken away... We managed to map out the street plan of this city, which turned out to be quite an intriguing find," Neves stated, according to Brazilian media reports. Metrópoles . Brazil’s colonization started in 1500 when Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral declared the territory as part of Portugal. Throughout the subsequent three hundred years, Portugal set up a comprehensive colonial governance system aimed at extracting Brazil’s abundant natural wealth, such as sugar, gold, and coffee, using...