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01/12/2016 GMT

Colombia's 'Lost City'

BBC World Service - Witness History, Colombia's 'Lost City'

In 1976, archaeologists found the ruins of a huge indigenous settlement hidden in forest

In 1976, archaeologists found the ruins of a huge indigenous settlement hidden in a remote mountain range.

In 1976, Colombian archaeologists found the ruins of a huge indigenous settlement hidden in a remote mountain range near the Caribbean coast. Known to local tribes as Teyuna, the site is one of the biggest and oldest of its kind in Latin America. It later became known as the Lost City. Simon Watts talks to lead archaeologist, Alvaro Soto-Holguin.

(Photo: The Lost City)

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