Ancient ‘Lost City’ Home to a Vanished Civilization Found Deep in the Honduran Jungle

A vanished civilization has been rediscovered deep in the jungles of Honduras and explorers are jumping at the prospect of learning of the ancient civilization lost to time. The Telegraph reports:

Zjungle
The jungle-choked remains of a “lost city”, abandoned by a mysterious civilisation several centuries ago and long fabled for reports of its gold and “monkey children”, have been uncovered in the depths of the rainforests of Honduras.

A team of American and Honduran archaeologists, aided by the bushcraft and survival skills of former British SAS soldiers, has just emerged from one of the most remote locations on Earth with news of their stunning discovery.

The expedition was seeking the site of the legendary “White City”, also known as the “City of the Monkey God”, a goal for Western explorers since the days of the Spanish conquistadores in the 16th century.

The city, believed to be one of many lost in the Mosquitia jungle, was home to an unknown people that thrived a thousand years ago but then vanished without trace – until now.

Unlike the Maya, so little is known of this pre-Columbian culture that it does not even have a name.

The discovery was revealed by the National Geographic, which sent a writer and photographer to accompany the expedition to the riverside site in a crater-shaped valley, encircled by imposing mountains.

The archaeologists surveyed and mapped extensive plazas, earthworks, mounds, and an earthen pyramid, the magazine reported.

They also discovered a “remarkable cache of stone sculptures” that had lain untouched for centuries and documented their findings, but left them unexcavated.

“It shows that even now, well into the 21st century, there is so much to discover about our world,” said Christopher Fisher, the lead archaeologist.

“The untouched nature of the site is unique and if preserved and properly studied can tell us much about these past people and provide critical data for modern conservation,” he told the Telegraph.

The site is located deep in the Mosquitia, a vast and barely inhabited region of swamps, rivers, and mountains. To navigate the choking foliage, the team was guided by Steve Sullivan and Andrew Wood, the former SAS soldiers who are experts in bushcraft survival skills.

Accompanied by Honduran troops, they set up base in a small town and were then ferried by military helicopter into a landing zone cut from the jungle.

The terrain’s inaccessibility has made it a major drug transit route for cartels trafficking cocaine from South America to the US.

The expedition was following up on the work of an aerial survey in 2012 that used ground-breaking radar technology to map the jungle floor through the thick canopy, and identified what seemed to be a large architectural site buried underground.

It’s amazing that in this day and age, we can still be discovering new, lost civilizations.
http://rightwingnews.com/top-news/ancient-lost-city-home-to-a-vanished-civilization-found-deep-in-the-honduran-jungle/

is this a city or a forest

I go comment in the morning,,

Baddestguyp:
is this a city or a forest

It is a city o.