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Lost City Discovered in Honduran Rain Forest
An expedition to Honduras has emerged from the jungle with dramatic news of the discovery of a mysterious culture’s lost city, never before explored. The team was led to the remote, uninhabited region by long-standing rumors that it was the site of a storied “White City,” also referred to in legend as the “City of the Monkey God.”
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Archaeologists surveyed and mapped extensive plazas, earthworks, mounds, and an earthen pyramid belonging to a culture that thrived a thousand years ago, and then vanished. The team, which returned from the site last Wednesday, also discovered a remarkable cache of stone sculptures that had lain untouched since the city was abandoned.
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This is amazing news for several reasons.
1. It’s been a long time since anyone has discovered a lost city, or perhaps not, the Mayan city Cival was discovered in 1980, first mapped in 1984, and archeological excavations only began in 2001.
2. There are about 20 Mayan cities known in nearby Honduras, Guatamala, Belize, and Mexico, but this doesn’t appear to be Mayan, but rather a completely new Mesoamerican culture. Not Maya, Olmec, Aztec, Zapotec, Inca or Toltec.
3. It has a “Lasseter’s reef” type of modern mythology, with “eccentric explorer Theodore Morde” from the 1940s in place of Lasseter.
4. The method of discovery itself is new. Lidar was used to penetrate the very thick vegetation. “To survey it, in 2012 they enlisted the help of the Center for Airborne Laser Mapping at the University of Houston.” Human-made features “stretching for more than a mile through the valley”.
5. It’s a very new find, the exploration team returned with artifacts “last wedensday”.