American Archaeology Magazine | Summer 2015 | Vol. 19 No. 2

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A Lost City Found?

A stream winds through part of an unexplored valley in Mosquitia in eastern Honduras, a region long rumored to contain a legendary White City, also called the City of the Monkey God.

Earlier this year the media reported that a scientific expedition had discovered a 1,000-year-old lost city in a remote area in eastern Honduras. But rather than celebrating this news, a number of other researchers were up in arms.

By Charles C. Poling 12

summer • 2015


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