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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story is a 2017 nonfiction book by Douglas Preston.It is about a project headed by documentary filmmakers Steve Elkins and Bill Benenson that used LiDAR to search for archaeological sites in the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve of the Gracias a Dios Department in the Mosquitia region of eastern Honduras. [1]
A conceptual drawing of Morde's Lost City of the Monkey God by Virgil Finlay. After four months, Morde and his colleague, Laurence C. Brown, emerged from the forest and sent news of a great find. [6] "'City of the Monkey God' is believed located: Expedition reports success in Honduras expedition" read the headline in the New York Times. [7]
2017 – Douglas Preston, an American author and journalist, publishes the book The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story about the history of the search for Ciudad Blanca and the discoveries made by the UTL Productions expeditions [99] [79] and filmmaker Tom Weinberg publishes Chasing the Lost City: Chronicles of Discovery in Honduras with ...
The expedition was seeking the site of the legendary "White City" (La Ciudad Blanca), also known as the "City of the Monkey God", a goal for Western explorers since the days of the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century. The team mapped plazas, earthworks, mounds, and an earthen pyramid belonging to an unknown culture.
This ancient Maya city mirrors the beauty of the physical landscapes in which it flourished—a fertile, well-watered mountain valley in western Honduras at an elevation of 600 meters (1,970 feet) above mean sea level. [2] It was the capital city of a major Classic period kingdom from the 5th to 9th centuries
Researchers have discovered several species of animals that were thought to be distinct and new species of wildlife in Honduras's Mosquitia rainforest. Researchers discover animals previously ...
Dev Patel as Kid in his directorial debut, <i>Monkey Man</i> Credit - Courtesy of Universal Pictures. E ven when a movie is far from perfect, you can tell when a director has poured his soul into ...
Target One, also called T1, is an ancient Mesoamerican city described by author Douglas Preston as located in the mountains of the Mosquitia region in the easternmost part of the modern state of Honduras (this despite the fact that there are no mountains in this part of the country).