Posted on 03/03/2015 2:39:00 PM PST by BBell
The jungle-choked remains of a "lost city", abandoned by a mysterious civilisation several centuries ago and long fabled for reports of its gold and "monkey children", have been uncovered in the depths of the rainforests of Honduras.
A team of American and Honduran archaeologists, aided by the bushcraft and survival skills of former British SAS soldiers, has just emerged from one of the most remote locations on Earth with news of their stunning discovery.
The expedition was seeking the site of the legendary "White City", also known as the "City of the Monkey God", a goal for Western explorers since the days of the Spanish conquistadores in the 16th century.
The city, believed to be one of many lost in the Mosquitia jungle, was home to an unknown people that thrived a thousand years ago but then vanished without trace until now.
Unlike the Maya, so little is known of this pre-Columbian culture that it does not even have a name.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
LiDAR survey ‘finds’ lost Honduran ‘city of gold’
Archaeology News Network | May 14, 2013 | Tim Walker
Posted on 05/15/2013 11:15:53 PM PDT by OddLane
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Yeah, and he really wishes that you'd stop waking him up.
Not my fault he’s such a light sleeper.
Maybe that coffee you made...... the pot that blew a hole in the kitchen, woke him up.
So I spiked an elder gods morning breakfast with my coffee.
You’d think he’d be immune to such abuse, but NOOO.
No big deal..
Its a black, violent place if I remember the game..
Darksheare's fault. :)
My coffee, the downfall of humanity.
And thus the world was laid waste.
It had to happen sometime.
Can I have another cup?
I don’t see why not.
I mean, it isn’t likely to cause singularities or anything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ciudad_Blanca
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Lost_City_of_the_Monkey_God.png
http://article.wn.com/view/2015/03/03/Explorers_Believe_They_Have_Found_The_Legendary_Lost_White_C/
http://oldhickorysweblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/city-of-monkey-god-or-not.html
Cthulhu is my only neighbor.., hmmmm?
MMMmmaaaaybe?
I wonder when/if there will be excavations?
That happened to you too?
My friend Timmy was never the same, although I have no real evidence that it was Cthulhu.
Does Cthulhu write thank-you notes on parchment with an ink made of flame?
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
I loved “The In-Laws”. I have never seen the remake as I’m sure it stunk.
So many lines in that movie are forever part of the family lexicon in my house.
SERPENTINE!!!
The Nat Geog article about it states that (oh no!) forest clearing is going on to create pasturing for cattle, and they’re only a couple of miles from the valley where these ruins are spread out. So, IOW, these really remote ruins would have been found in a few years anyway. :’)
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