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23:34through the Acre and the Amazonas, which are two states of Brazil effectively. The Acre is the one that is bordering Peru. >> Okay. >> Right next [clears throat] to Peru, and then Amazonas is the giant one that covers most of the Amazon rainforest. Right in that border is where they were looking. Notice, this is far away from the Amazon River. Okay, the Amazon River is is going up top. >> Yeah. Yes. Yes. >> These are minor rivers that are tributaries into the Amazon. More so, they're tributaries very, very far away from the Amazon rainforest. I mean, sorry, from the central sort of Amazon River. >> The I think the the point you're trying
24:15to bring up is uh ancient civilizations would have likely gathered or aggregated around major water sources. >> the assumption >> That's the assumption >> to make, especially given what that Spanish guy had seen, >> Right. Cuz he had >> just gone up the Amazon. The Amazon's like the easiest navigable river. It's It's like a mile wide the whole time, so you just like go up, right? He's not going up these tiny tributaries. >> And so the the point being this place that we're looking, which is sort of in the south west >> almost towards Peru. >> in Peru. There there is there are no natural infra There's no natural infrastructure that would suggest that human life would congregate
24:58in that area. >> Exactly. And that's why they the scientists were so surprised at the density of what they found, right? This is a civilization that the researchers have previously named the Aquiri. It's named after two of the rivers that are in that region. They're tributaries into the Amazon, right? Now, the team identified most of these earthworks in the new study. They're geoglyphs. They're ditches that are made in the ground that form geometric shapes. Um some are even more sophisticated with