Lately, archaeologists have announced the discovery of the ruins of a vanished culture. The team of scientists passed through the dense 32,000-square-mile Mosquitia region of Honduras known as Central America's Little Amazon.

They surveyed and mapped a collection of plazas, earthworks, mounds and an earthen pyramid of a culture that thrived between 1,000 and 1,400 AD. The researchers said that the finding of a non-looted and pristine site.

Christopher Fisher, a Mesoamerican archaeologist, from Colorado State University, was of the view that they found tops of 52 artifacts. They researchers affirmed that more evidence of the civilization must be hidden under the surface.

Stone ceremonial seats, engraved containers decorated with snakes, zoomorphic figures and vultures were among the artifacts discovered. The team also found the carved head, which the archeologists have been linking to many things like it might be representing a shaman in a spirit state.

It might also be related to ball games played in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. In 2012, the search for the site started. It was started after the research team flew a small plane over the dense stretch of jungle and used a form of light detection and ranging equipment to map the land below the canopy.

They discovered a network of plazas and pyramids that were hidden for hundreds of years. It is considered that the jungle’s remote location and dangers associated with it led many explorers to be at bay.

However, the airplane's surveillance allowed the current research team to reach at the place. The team thinks that not one, but there are many settlements hidden under the dense forest indicating about a lost civilization in the Mosquitia region.

“This is clearly the most undisturbed rainforest in Central America”, affirmed Mark Plotkin, the expedition's ethnobotanist.