Posted on 05/15/2013 11:15:53 PM PDT by OddLane
The Google Map of eastern Honduras is almost blank. A vast and virtually unexplored rainforest region known as the Mosquitia covers around 32,000 square miles, home to dense jungle, hostile terrain and the terrifying-sounding jumping viper. Legend has it that somewhere beneath the forest canopy lies the ancient city of Ciudad Blanca – and now archaeologists think they may have found it.
Tomorrow in Cancun, Mexico, an interdisciplinary group of scientists from fields including archaeology, anthropology and geology will appear at the American Geophysical Union’s annual conference to present the technology that has allowed them to discover a “lost world” in the Honduran interior. The team photographed the ground using new technology known as airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR). They found what appears to be a network of plazas and pyramids, hidden for hundreds of years.
The legend of Ciudad Blanca (“The White City”) has captivated Western explorers ever since the Conquistador Hernan Cortes mentioned it in a letter to Spanish Emperor Charles V in 1526. Cortes never found the city, nor the gold it was said to contain, and the inhospitable region remained unconquered by the Europeans. In 1940, an American adventurer, Theodore Morde, emerged from the jungle claiming to have a found a “lost city of the monkey god”, where the local indigenous people worshipped huge ape sculptures.
He was said to have been tipped off about the ruins by Charles Lindbergh, the first solo aviator to cross the Atlantic, who glimpsed “an amazing ancient metropolis” when he was flying above the forest. Morde was killed in a car accident before he could reveal its location.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com ...
“In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century.”
Great book, never got made into a movie, which was supposed to star Brad Pitt.
I was impressed with the intensity of the lifelong search for just such a city.
I hope I live to see them uncover it.
Wish Indiana Jones could go take a look.
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Feh.
That’s great. Now the illegals won’t have to go here...
****Morde was killed in a car accident before he could reveal its location.****
Odds are that there is little if any gold left.
I hope they find a crystal skull or two there. End times near. LOL
When I had the time to look, I snatched-up every Ace F-series book I could get my hands on. The cover does not look like like either Frazetta or Krenkel. I think I still have the first three books in the Tarzan series.
” the hidden city was probably home to a sophisticated Mesoamerican society, with paved streets, parks, pyramids and an advanced irrigation system.”
Say what? An advanced civilization in a tropical jungle?
I thought that tropical climates and jungles are the reasons that Equatorial Africans never developed civilizations like the Europeans did.
This Political Correctness gets so durn complicated!
Intriguing. I’m interested in knowing what they find. I read the book mentioned above about the lost city of Z, and recommend it to anyone who frequents this type of post.
“Intriguing. I’m interested in knowing what they find. I read the book mentioned above about the lost city of Z, and recommend it to anyone who frequents this type of post.”
Several years ago I got hooked on the Doc Savage series and read a bunch of them. He was sort of an earlier version of Indiana Jones. Give Doc a try. Easy reading and interesting as he was a gadget sort of guy who used cutting edge technology of the day which was 30’s and 40’s thinking.
Read the Grann book and found it very well-written and utterly gripping; I was disappointed they never found the city.
Maybe this is it.
Chuck Norris has been there. Twice.
It wasn’t the jungle that impeded civilization in equatorial Africa.
It was White folks’ Imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, slavery, oppression, repression, meanness, cruelty, rapine, and general nastiness that kept these noble people of color from progress.
Get your story straight! LOL!!!!!!!/s
Well it won’t be much of a secret once they lead a film crew to the temple complex.
Once the scientists have gone there the looters will there to shred the place; if they haven’t been there already.
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