It look like a cross between Hieronymus Bosch and a Betty Boop cartoon.
Posted on 07/06/2025 9:44:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
La Ciudad Blanca is a legendary city that was said to be located in the virgin rainforest of Mosquitia in eastern Honduras. Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés reported hearing "trustworthy" information about the ancient ruins, but never located them. In 1927, pilot Charles Lindbergh reported seeing monuments constructed from white stone while flying over eastern Honduras.
By the 1930s, there were rumors of a place in Honduras called the "City of the Monkey God", which was equated with Ciudad Blanca, and in 1939 adventurer Theodore Morde claimed to have found it and brought thousands of artifacts back to the United States to prove it... He never revealed the precise location of his find as he feared the site would be looted, and he died before returning to the site for a proper excavation...
American author Douglas Preston and a group of explorers... consisted of American and Honduran explorers and archeologists, launched their adventure, combing the rainforests of Honduras and Nicaragua in search of the lost city. During the process, they had to deal with poisonous snakes and crawl through thick foliage to find it, but shortly discovering the ruins in 2015, they contracted an extremely dangerous, life-threatening disease: leishmaniasis...
Within the city's ruins, the group of the adventurous and brave explorers found a lot of artifacts – dating back to 1000 and 1500 AD – carved from stone and clay, including trays and a throne. Preston appears to be quite confident that there are more secrets hiding within the White City's ruins, but after almost losing his face and life, he's not in a hurry to go back and continue the excavation, "It's just too dangerous," he said after his doctors informed him that if untreated, parts of his face would "fall off," becoming an open sore...
(Excerpt) Read more at ancient-origins.net ...
It look like a cross between Hieronymus Bosch and a Betty Boop cartoon.
ROFL!! The first one with the big butt looks more like Michelle Obama.
Fauci will probably want to do some gain-of-function research on it.
Hated that place.best day there was the day I left on a mailbird to san jose.
Isn’t this what Fauci’s beagles experiments with sand flies were about? Finding a preventative?
Oh hell no.
Hieronymus Boop.
How could some people live there and build a city?
Fascinating history
The monkey god is NOT pleased…..🐒🪱🐍😡😱
“A few short treks through the triple canopy rain forest in Panama was enough to never want to be near that stuff again.
Do not touch anything or your skin will let you know.
Flies that lay eggs under your skin.”
Bugs and Snakes, and Snakes and Bugs. Yet oddly enough the most dangerous physical threat that causes injury is a tree, the Black Palm.
It wasn’t overgrown with rainforest when they built it. Possibly slowly cleared the land over decades before they started on the permanent stone structures.
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I was fortunate to visit there about 30 years ago. Heck, we were able to walk on a couple of the pyramids.
Oh yea, I remember now. I brought campylobactor with me. I had the excruciating $hits for about 5 days before I went to the Dr for diagnosis. Now, I carry antibiotics in my shower kit.
MFO
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Excellent.👍
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