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Why was the Olmec civilization unknown to the modern world until the late 1850s?

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The location where it was discovered is a dense jungle with less people. The civilization disappeared without trace and there was few written history about it. even the available writings are still undeciphered. before then a lot of intrest was in Aztec which had already been accepted as the predominant ancient civilization.
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