jones_supa writes: An expedition to Honduras has emerged from the jungle with the discovery of a previously unknown culture’s lost city. 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.” 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 also discovered a remarkable cache of stone sculptures that had lain untouched since the city was abandoned. The objects were documented but left unexcavated. To protect the site from looters, its location is not being revealed. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Lost City Discovered In Honduran Rain Forest
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