In search for the legendary “City of the Monkey God,” explorers found the untouched ruins of a vanished culture, a new National Geographic reports reveals.
Sounds awesome right? Well, they won’t tell us much…
Researchers claim to have located the legendary La Ciudad Blanca, or the “White City” (it’s also been called “The City of the Monkey God”).
Since the 1920s, many explorers have attempted to find the lost settlement, HuffPostLive reported.
In the year 1940, explorer Theodore Morde claimed to have found the White City, but he refused to disclose the location out of fear that it would be looted.
These new researchers are following his lead…. Not saying much.
So we have a few photos, but that’s it.
More from NatGeo:
“The tops of 52 artifacts were peeking from the earth. Many more evidently lie below ground, with possible burials. They include stone ceremonial seats (called metates) and finely carved vessels decorated with snakes, zoomorphic figures, and vultures.
The most striking object emerging from the ground is the head of what Fisher speculated might be “a were-jaguar,” possibly depicting a shaman in a transformed, spirit state. Alternatively, the artifact might be related to ritualized ball games that were a feature of pre-Columbian life in Mesoamerica.”
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